AxeML is a notation for Nokogiri XML documents inspired by SXML.
gem install axeml
A document is represented by an array, possibly nested. The first
element of each array must be a symbol indicating the node
name. Further elements may either be strings or numbers which are
treated as the node's content, hashes representing this node's
attributes or further arrays which are then made into child nodes by
the same rules. Instances of ActiveSupport::SafeBuffer (i.e. strings
marked as html_safe) are injected without quoting.
The syntax can be described by the following grammar:
node ::= [<node-name>, (<node> | <attributes> | <content>) ...]
node-name ::= <Symbol>
attributes ::= <Hash>
content ::= <String> | <Fixnum> | <Float> | <ActiveSupport::SafeBuffer>
AxeML.transform([:ul, { :class => 'menu' },
[:li, [:a, { :href => '/foo' }, 'foo']],
[:li, [:a, { :href => '/bar' }, 'bar']]]).to_s
=>
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ul class="menu">
<li>
<a href="/foo">foo</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="/bar">bar</a>
</li>
</ul>
Note that since AxeML.transform returns an instance of
Nokogiri::XML::Document you can directly use its search facilities,
for example:
AxeML.transform([:foo, [:bar, [:baz, "very well"]]]).search('foo baz').text
=> "very well"
- actually implement transformation rules :-)
- support XML namespaces
Copyright (c) 2010 Moritz Heidkamp. See LICENSE for details.