xml.response(:code => @code) do
xml.items do
@items.each do |item|
xml.item do
xml.sku(item.product.sku)
xml.description(item.product.description)
xml.unit_price(item.product.list_price, :currency => “usd”)
xml.quantity(1)
end
end
end
end

${item.product.sku}
${item.product.description}
{item.product.list_price(currency=”usd”)}
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It’s basically just the same thing inverted. Rather than a little XML in your Ruby, you get a little Python in your XML

People love our ‘builder’ templates in rails which guarantee valid xml (builder ‘features’ not withstanding). Perhaps turbogears could use something similar?

then I could have a hook to expose the data in any page in any format. I’m not sure how to resolve the mapping with pretty urls in cherrypy though.

Something like
site.com/people/aaron -> html
site.com/people/aaron.xml -> xml
vs
site.com/people/aaron -> html
site.com/people/aaron?frmt=xml -> xml