Recommended way to create an object from XML (or other) file?

[Alexander Lamb]

Hello list,

I need to be able to edit small files representing simple objects. =20
The values can be considered as strings.
Obviously, I managed using an XML to read it with the XML parser. I =20
was wondering if there was a more direct way to unmarshall an object =20
from XML or some kind of property list file? DBM seems opaque (not =20
editable by hand). CSV lacks the key-value type of information. XML =20
using the parser is too general.

Thanks,
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Alexander Lamb
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[Jacob Quinn Shenker]

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[Alexander Lamb]

Oups, of course Yaml! (I knew I had to read past page 400 in the =20
excellent "programming Ruby" book).
You see, Ruby is SO EASY getting started with that you forget there =20
are things to read first (I come from the Objective-C / NeXT world).

Thanks,

Alex
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Alexander Lamb
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