Re:A brief XML rant
by mnarayan01 on Monday March 04, 2013 @10:25AM
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Builder can be a bit of a pain if you want to do things that are...let us say "questionable" (e.g. output a tag with inner content which is _not_ XML escaped).
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There's no such thing in this case though, there's a single layer of tags with escaped content inside (the example document uses CDATA, but as others have noted automated generation is not a good use case for CDATA)
Re:A brief XML rant
by mnarayan01 on Monday March 04, 2013 @12:41PM
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Agreed; just saying in general. Also, I would guess the reason they used ERB here is simply familiarity, not any type of reasoned decision.