That aspect of the blog entry was a little unclear. I'm not a big fan of XML. XML has used for all sorts of different purposes - object serialisation, application configuration, etc. - although simpler alternatives exist, not all of these are completely evil. These applications could not really be described as using XML as dynamic language.
YAML is just another markup language and isn't specifically associated with ruby - there are YAML parsers for every programming language. It can be used as a drop in replacement for these sorts of uses of XML (object serialisation and configuration). One application of XML that can be avoided by using ruby is msbuild. Build scripting needs to be quick and convenient so ant, nant and msbuild have this awkward xml based representation of tasks/targets. If you want to extend these tools, you need to compile some code and load it in to your build file. In this context I guess you could describe XML being used as a dynamic language. Instead of this ugly and awkward approach, you can use something like rake which is an internal DSL for creating builds. XAML is another attempt at creating a dynamic language with XML and ASP.NET is another. Both could be replaced with a more elegant and expressive ruby DSL. Is that the sort of thing you had in mind Jimmy? On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Shay Friedman <shay.fried...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > Jimmy wrote in one of his latests posts that Ruby can replace XML. I didn't > understand this statement because XML files are static configuration files > (and Ruby also has an equivalent - YAML)... > How can Ruby code replace XML files? > Thanks! > Shay. > -- > -------------------------------------------------- > Shay Friedman > Author of IronRuby Unleashed > http://www.IronShay.com > Follow me: http://twitter.com/ironshay > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > > _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core
