I also don't find STAN syntax to be clean. I see you're point about
generating XML, vs parsing it which the Amara toolset definitely seems
better for. I think you missed a tool though that does make creating
XML very nice using Python operator overloading, jaxml
(http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/jaxml/action_Presentation).
The largest problem I see with the class based approach is that classes
really have little to do with this as you're not maintaining state or
using instance methods. The classes are there solely to try and get the
syntax a little prettier, which I think jaxml does a great job of doing
without arbitrary classes that are thrown away purely to make some XML.
Your example with jaxml:
import jaxml
doc = jaxml.XML_document()
doc.people()
doc.person()
doc.name("Someone")
doc.age("20")
doc.birthday("11-10-70")
doc.output()
Besides for the use of classes, the main problem I see with using them
to create XML is when you have deeply nested XML structures and having
a dozen nested class creations for even slightly larger XML documents
is going to be nightmarish.
I don't think jaxml is necessarilly the best tool out there, but it
does make it very quick and easy to throw together XML which is
apparently your goal. If it's missing something, perhaps that could be
added to it?
Cheers,
Ben
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