XTemplate -- XML Template Engine for Ruby
XTemplate
XTemplate is a package of ruby libraries and programs which formats a
XML/HTML document according to a ruby's data structure which consists
of Hash and Array. This idea comes from Amrita.
So we do not need to explicitly write iterations like for-loop in
a template. Such iterations are indicated by an expansion data.
We can specify a data ID in XPath like expression, and reconstruct a given
data in a template without writing ruby programs. This mechanism provides
interoperablity between a template and a ruby script.
We can use XML/YAML documents as an expansion
data (See also this page.), since it is automatically
converted to a ruby's Hash object.
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XTemplate is provided under the term of
the modified BSD license.
XTemplate uses one of
xmlscan
and
REXML
to parse XML document, so you need to install it.
Also, 'xtemplate/yaml.rb' requires YAML4R.
Other Resources
- xmlscan
(XML parser used by XTemplate.)
- REXML
(XML parser used by XTemplate.)
- Amrita
(The idea of XTemplate comes from Amrita, which uses REXML.)
- ruby-tmpl
(similar to eruby)
- ERuby
- ERB
(another implementation of eruby, written in ruby.)
- XTemplate for PHP
(This is a PHP's library which is similar to eruby.)
- misen
(This is similar to amrita and supports non-HTML/XHTML document.)
-
Choosing a Templating System
: Overview of perl template systems
-
Ruby: HtmlTemplates
(Overview of ruby template systems)
-
Velocity
(Java based template engine)
- smarty
(PHP template engine)
-
Pnuts Wiki: TemplateEngines (A summary of template engines in japanese.)