Is it possible to generate plain-old XML using Haml?
This demonstrates some things that could use useful for xml documents:
!!! XML
%root{'xmlns:foo' => 'http://myns'}
-# Note: :dashed-attr is invalid syntax
%dashed-tag{'dashed-attr' => 'value'} Text
%underscore_tag Text
- ['apple', 'orange', 'pear'].each do |fruit|
- haml_tag(fruit, "Yummy #{fruit.capitalize}!", 'fruit-code' => fruit.upcase)
%foo:nstag{'foo:nsattr' => 'value'}
Output:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>
<root xmlns:foo='http://myns'>
<dashed-tag dashed-attr='value'>Text</dashed-tag>
<underscore_tag>Text</underscore_tag>
<apple fruit-code='APPLE'>Yummy Apple!</apple>
<orange fruit-code='ORANGE'>Yummy Orange!</orange>
<pear fruit-code='PEAR'>Yummy Pear!</pear>
<foo:nstag foo:nsattr='value'></foo:nstag>
</root>
Look at the Haml::Helpers link on the haml reference for more methods like haml_tag
.
If you want to use double-quotes for attributes,
See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/967065/498594
Or outside of rails use:
>> Haml::Engine.new("%tag{:name => 'value'}", :attr_wrapper => '"').to_html
=> "<tag name=\"value\"></tag>\n"
Doing XML in HAML is easy, just start off your template with:
!!! XML
which produces
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>
Then as @beanish said earlier, you "make up your own tags":
%test
%test2 hello
%item{:name => "blah"}
to get
<test>
<test2>hello</test2>
<item name='blah'></item>
</test>
More: http://haml.info/docs/yardoc/file.REFERENCE.html#doctype_
%test
%test2 hello
%item{:name => "blah"}
run it through haml
haml hamltest.haml test.xml
open the file in a browser
<test>
<test2>hello</test2>
<item name='blah'></item>
</test>
The HAML reference talks about html tags and gives some examples. HAML reference