Comments on: Ruby + XML: A Serious Question That Only Sounds Facetious http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/ruby-xml-parsin/ programming, politics, & other religious issues Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Nels http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/ruby-xml-parsin/#comment-38213 Nels Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:04:22 +0000 http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/?p=632#comment-38213 Since this comment thread sputtered out, has there been any significant advances in Ruby + XML land other than Nokogiri? Since this comment thread sputtered out, has there been any significant advances in Ruby + XML land other than Nokogiri?

]]> By: VB Beginner http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/ruby-xml-parsin/#comment-37481 VB Beginner Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:34:08 +0000 http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/?p=632#comment-37481 I agree with Wheelwright. I don't know about "light years", but C# in fact is a few years ahead, I think. And, believe it or not, Visual Basic goes even further with this LINQ to XML API. You can write the same LINQ construct (.Descendants("account"), etc), but VB programmers use XML literals and properties. We can't really see from this example, but Visual Studio provides intellisense for this. So, the same query will look something like... <pre lang="VB"> From account In xDoc... Group account By key = account.@id Into Group Select id = key, amount = Group..Sum(Function(t) t.@amount) </pre> The only thing with VB is that its lambda syntax is a bit goofy. I like C#'s => way better. By the way, does Java even have lambda? How do you write a higher-order function in Java anyway? I agree with Wheelwright. I don’t know about “light years”, but C# in fact is a few years ahead, I think. And, believe it or not, Visual Basic goes even further with this LINQ to XML API. You can write the same LINQ construct (.Descendants(“account”), etc), but VB programmers use XML literals and properties. We can’t really see from this example, but Visual Studio provides intellisense for this.

So, the same query will look something like…

From account In xDoc...
Group account By key = account.@id Into Group
Select id = key, amount = Group..Sum(Function(t) t.@amount)

The only thing with VB is that its lambda syntax is a bit goofy. I like C#’s => way better. By the way, does Java even have lambda? How do you write a higher-order function in Java anyway?

]]> By: Peter Schut http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/ruby-xml-parsin/#comment-33346 Peter Schut Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:33:09 +0000 http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/?p=632#comment-33346 For help with namespaces and libxml-ruby, check out http://thebogles.com/blog/an-hpricot-style-interface-to-libxml/ Cheers, Peter. For help with namespaces and libxml-ruby, check out http://thebogles.com/blog/an-hpricot-style-interface-to-libxml/

Cheers, Peter.

]]> By: Enfranchised Mind » The Status of Ruby’s libxml http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/ruby-xml-parsin/#comment-33315 Enfranchised Mind » The Status of Ruby’s libxml Tue, 27 May 2008 11:39:57 +0000 http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/?p=632#comment-33315 [...] I was struggling with XML parsing in Ruby, the consensus was to try out libxml. I got on the devel mailing list in preparation for giving it [...] [...] I was struggling with XML parsing in Ruby, the consensus was to try out libxml. I got on the devel mailing list in preparation for giving it [...]

]]> By: Enfranchised Mind » Hpricot Does Namespaces? http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/ruby-xml-parsin/#comment-33270 Enfranchised Mind » Hpricot Does Namespaces? Thu, 22 May 2008 21:25:36 +0000 http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/?p=632#comment-33270 [...] like I was a bit hasty in my condemnation of Ruby XML parsing: Hpricot apparently handles namespaces okay through the magical .%() syntax. This tip is shared by [...] [...] like I was a bit hasty in my condemnation of Ruby XML parsing: Hpricot apparently handles namespaces okay through the magical .%() syntax. This tip is shared by [...]

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