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Modified: Fri Sep 06 09:08:45 MDT 2002

xml:Tailor - XML Tag Attribute Language for Ruby

Copyright (c) 2002 Thomas Sawyer, LGPL

Introduction

xml:Tailor is a TAL, a Tag Attribute Language, for Ruby. What is a TAL? TALs are like template systems for SGML derivitives (XML/XHTML), but more powerful, and rather compare to ERuby. The advantage of a TALs, though, is that you can use standard visual HTML editors without difficulty. This is due to all dynamic markup is specified in attributes rather than as special tags.

Installation

To install xml:Tailor simply unpack the gzipped tarball into your local site_ruby path. This path is usually +/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.6/+. An install script is not currently provided.

Requirements

REXML 2.3.5+| TomsLib::REREXML

Usage

Currently you'll just have to weed through the example and code.

Authentication

Package:xml:Tailor
Author:Thomas Sawyer
Requires:Ruby 1.6.7+
License:Copyright (c) 2002 Thomas Sawyer, LGPL

Copy Notice

xml:Tailor is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

xml:Tailor is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with xml:Tailor; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA