Very nice! Thank you. I'm sure I will be using this.
But what about elements with attributes, nested elements AND/OR text
values?
What does:
<element attribute="blah">text</element>
Look like?
And what does a nested structure like this look like as a hash:
<elements groupName="blah">
<element id="1" type="blah1">text1</element>
<element id="2" type="blah2">text2</element>
</elements>
I would expect something similar to...
{
elements: [
{
groupName: "blah",
element: [
{
id: "1",
type: "blah1",
TEXT: "text1" // ???
},
{
id: "2",
type: "blah2",
TEXT: "text2" // ???
}
]
}
]
}
...but you'll have to have some way to handle cases where an attribute
of "TEXT" is supplied, etc...
...you might have to append your hash object names with something to
indicate if the name/value pair represents an attribute, element, or
text node.
Like:
{
elements_EL: [
{
groupName_ATTR: "blah",
element_EL: [
{
id_ATTR: "1",
type_ATTR: "blah1",
text: "text1"
},
{
id_ATTR: "2",
type_ATTR: "blah2",
text: "text2"
}
]
}
]
}
Then you always know "text" represents the text value, because if an
element (or attribute) of "text" was supplied, it would be appended with
an identifier.. Or maybe taking it that far is beyond the scope of what
you need it for?
Lol, it seems if you take this far enough you might as well just stick
with XML...
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