to_xml and from_xml round robin ... exists?

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Im creating an api for my website and Im trying to roll my own. I know I can use activeresource and some other packages, but really what I would like is to be able to send simple xml data back and forth.

Im sticking with AR controllers since I use the respond_to block to output results in amf (via RubyAMF) and xml. So for the respond_to xml code, I want to be able to do

{}.to_xml and get something that can be translated back equivalently. on the other end.

Right now, if I want to get and array from xml, I have to send xml like: "<ids>1</ids><ids>2</ids><ids>3</ids><ids>4</ids>" to get params[:ids] and if its only "<ids>1</ids>", then params[:ids] is not an array.

I know Rails 2.0 is trying to make a better AR#to_xml function, but that doesnt aim at my use case.

Also something like [{:foo => ["bar","bar","bar"]}].to_xml will throw an error as well.

Somebody has had to have written a mirroring to_xml / from_xml function by this point.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

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Im creating an api for my website and Im trying to roll my own. I know I can use activeresource and some other packages, but really
what I would like is to be able to send simple xml data back and forth.

Im sticking with AR controllers since I use the respond_to block to output results in amf (via RubyAMF) and xml. So for the respond_to xml code, I want to be able to do

{}.to_xml and get something that can be translated back
equivalently. on the other end.

Right now, if I want to get and array from xml, I have to send xml
like: "<ids>1</ids><ids>2</ids><ids>3</ids><ids>4</ids>" to get params[:ids] and if its only "<ids>1</ids>", then params[:ids] is not an array.

I know Rails 2.0 is trying to make a better AR#to_xml function, but
that doesnt aim at my use case.

Also something like [{:foo => ["bar","bar","bar"]}].to_xml will
throw an error as well.

Somebody has had to have written a mirroring to_xml / from_xml
function by this point.

Hash.from_xml ?

Fred