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 uses one of xmlscan and REXML to parse XML document, so you need to install it. Also, 'xtemplate/yaml.rb' requires YAML4R .

Future requests and questions are allowed to be posted to the "Amrita Users ML". Of course, I will answer to quenstions posted to ruby-talk/ruby-list mailing list.

If you encounter a problem, inform it to me using bug tracking system. Also, feature request tracking system and patch tracking system are available.

• 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.)

• [xml-users:8303] (2003-05-09,japanese/utf8)