>>-------- "Chad Fowler" <chad / chadfowler.com> Pretty much everything you've mentioned here is possible with REXML --------------------<< Except the style. Besides, that was part of my point. >>-------- "Chad Fowler" <chad / chadfowler.com> I can't see how hard-wiring XML as a part of Ruby's syntax provides much of a benefit at all. It would be fashionable (though not really all that fashionable these days), but barring that it's just more baggage to carry around. ---------<< It's interesting to me that you would wrap an xml file(rss) in an object http://www.chadfowler.com/ruby/rss/ but belittle an offhanded attempt to make inherent those attributes that you so painstakingly crafted code for and call the former more baggage. Help me understand that, Chad! >>-------- "Chad Fowler" <chad / chadfowler.com> Interesting in the same way that Lojban is interesting (http://www.lojban.org). :) --------------------<< for you! >>-------- "Chad Fowler" <chad / chadfowler.com> Are we playing sports or writing programming languages? I didn't know it was a competition. Who are the enemies? Is anyone on our team? --------------------<< I'm just a simple scriptor making an open ended suggestion about a language that i enjoy in a forum that i would hope would encourage such things - even if they are stupid. What language are you writing, btw? Just an analogy, maybe a bad one. Sorry. >>-------- "Chad Fowler" <chad / chadfowler.com> more readable? ...<list><item>blah</item><item>blah2</item><item>lkjsdf</item></list> vs. ["blah", "blah2", "lkjsdf"] --------------------<< More readable as in 'more context' not as in more succinct or fewer letters or anything else.(ie are those an array of items in a list or just a lot of blah?) >>-------- With REXML in the distribution you can already do this. Just requires a few more keystrokes. -----< Sure but fewer works for me better. >>-------- "Chad Fowler" <chad / chadfowler.com> Where would you rather have coupling? -----------<< Where it serves me best. I was merely contemplating another tool to choose from. I'm not unaware of the implications. >>-------- "Chad Fowler" <chad / chadfowler.com> No offense intended, but I hope not :) -----------<< None taken! >>-------- "Erik Terpstra" <erik / terpnet.nl> Last year I made a quick hack that could do something like that. I didn't have much experience with Ruby back then, so it is a quick and very dirty solution. But the following works: ----------> Thanks Erik i'm going to take a look at this and see if i can use it! I'm still a newbie and will prob learn a lot from it in any case. :P __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com