N
NeilW
XmlStruct
=========
http://rubyforge.org/projects/xmlstruct/
Documentation
=============
http://xmlstruct.rubyforge.org/
About
=====
XML Markup the simple way.
I've uploaded a small library to Rubyforge that allows you
to markup data using XML tags using direct Ruby assignment
following the example of OpenStruct.
The library supports attributes and simple text elements -
all of which are XML escaped before output. The interface is
designed to be as simple as possible, with the least amount
of syntactic sugar. The general idea is that you mark up your
flat data and output a string containing the markup.
The system works best when you have a small amount of data,
and a large amount of irritating XML structure to impose upon
it. The class came about to allow me to quickly draw up XML
messages to send to the UK Government Gateway. Boy can you
tell that that schema was designed by committee.
I hope that it finds some use somewhere.
Usage
=====
I hope the interface is intuitive. Very simply you use assignment
commands, e.g
require 'rubygems'
require 'xml_struct'
@xmldoc = XmlStruct.new
@xmldoc.GovTalkMessage={:xmlns =>
"http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/CM/envelope"}
@xmldoc.GovTalkMessage.EnvelopeVersion="2.0"
[email protected]
md.Class="MAFF-IACS-AAPS2001"
md.Qualifier="request"
md.Function="submit"
md.CorrelationID
md.Transformation="XML"
md.GatewayTimeStamp
@xmldoc.GovTalkDetails.Keys.Key[0]={:Type => "VendorNumber"}
@xmldoc.GovTalkDetails.Keys.Key[0]=275687
@xmldoc.GovTalkDetails.Keys.Key[1]={:Type => "MainCPH"}
@xmldoc.GovTalkDetails.Keys.Key[1]="14/02/0327"
@xmldoc.GovTalkDetails.Body
print @xmldoc.to_s
outputs
<GovTalkMessage xmlns="http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/CM/envelope">
<EnvelopeVersion>2.0</EnvelopeVersion>
<Header>
<MessageDetails>
<Class>MAFF-IACS-AAPS2001</Class>
<Qualifier>request</Qualifier>
<Function>submit</Function>
<CorrelationID>
</CorrelationID>
<Transformation>XML</Transformation>
<GatewayTimeStamp>
</GatewayTimeStamp>
</MessageDetails>
</Header>
</GovTalkMessage>
<GovTalkDetails>
<Keys>
<Key Type="VendorNumber">275687</Key>
<Key Type="MainCPH">14/02/0327</Key>
</Keys>
<Body>
</Body>
</GovTalkDetails>
Enjoy
===
Neil Wilson, Aldur Systems Ltd
=========
http://rubyforge.org/projects/xmlstruct/
Documentation
=============
http://xmlstruct.rubyforge.org/
About
=====
XML Markup the simple way.
I've uploaded a small library to Rubyforge that allows you
to markup data using XML tags using direct Ruby assignment
following the example of OpenStruct.
The library supports attributes and simple text elements -
all of which are XML escaped before output. The interface is
designed to be as simple as possible, with the least amount
of syntactic sugar. The general idea is that you mark up your
flat data and output a string containing the markup.
The system works best when you have a small amount of data,
and a large amount of irritating XML structure to impose upon
it. The class came about to allow me to quickly draw up XML
messages to send to the UK Government Gateway. Boy can you
tell that that schema was designed by committee.
I hope that it finds some use somewhere.
Usage
=====
I hope the interface is intuitive. Very simply you use assignment
commands, e.g
require 'rubygems'
require 'xml_struct'
@xmldoc = XmlStruct.new
@xmldoc.GovTalkMessage={:xmlns =>
"http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/CM/envelope"}
@xmldoc.GovTalkMessage.EnvelopeVersion="2.0"
[email protected]
md.Class="MAFF-IACS-AAPS2001"
md.Qualifier="request"
md.Function="submit"
md.CorrelationID
md.Transformation="XML"
md.GatewayTimeStamp
@xmldoc.GovTalkDetails.Keys.Key[0]={:Type => "VendorNumber"}
@xmldoc.GovTalkDetails.Keys.Key[0]=275687
@xmldoc.GovTalkDetails.Keys.Key[1]={:Type => "MainCPH"}
@xmldoc.GovTalkDetails.Keys.Key[1]="14/02/0327"
@xmldoc.GovTalkDetails.Body
print @xmldoc.to_s
outputs
<GovTalkMessage xmlns="http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/CM/envelope">
<EnvelopeVersion>2.0</EnvelopeVersion>
<Header>
<MessageDetails>
<Class>MAFF-IACS-AAPS2001</Class>
<Qualifier>request</Qualifier>
<Function>submit</Function>
<CorrelationID>
</CorrelationID>
<Transformation>XML</Transformation>
<GatewayTimeStamp>
</GatewayTimeStamp>
</MessageDetails>
</Header>
</GovTalkMessage>
<GovTalkDetails>
<Keys>
<Key Type="VendorNumber">275687</Key>
<Key Type="MainCPH">14/02/0327</Key>
</Keys>
<Body>
</Body>
</GovTalkDetails>
Enjoy
===
Neil Wilson, Aldur Systems Ltd