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Easy API for working with XML documents
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Feature request - (does this make sense to you?) #24

Closed mistergibson closed 6 years ago

mistergibson commented 6 years ago

Dear Maik,

I was wondering if you could add a feature to xml_out and xml_in where: when it produces xml from a Hash it sets a 'ruby_class' attribute to the class of the data element for the key or array element key for each element, and casting the text to that ruby_class when producing the Ruby Hash/Array?

Does such a feature make sense to you? If not, what are your thoughts?

Thanks in advance, (great gem btw)

G. Gibson mistergibson

maik commented 6 years ago

Hi!

Thank you very much for your suggestion! I thought about doing something similar in the past to turn xml-simple into a full-blown object-to-xml mapping tool. I decided not to do it, because it would add a lot more complexity with only a small benefit.

Best, Maik

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 1:08 AM, G. Gibson notifications@github.com wrote:

Dear Maik,

I was wondering if you could add a feature to xml_out and xml_in where: when it produces xml from a Hash it sets a 'ruby_class' attribute to the class of the data element for the key or array element key for each element, and casting the text to that ruby_class when producing the Ruby Hash/Array?

Does such a feature make sense to you? If not, what are your thoughts?

Thanks in advance, (great gem btw)

G. Gibson mistergibson

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mistergibson commented 6 years ago

I heard that nokogiri does this, and it runs under jruby like yours. I'll see if that holds any promise.

Thanks for the reply