From: Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@...>
Date: 2010-09-06T05:02:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:32070] Re: merging nokogiri to ext/

On Sep 5, 2010, at 12:28 PM, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 9:19 PM,  <brabuhr@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 4:30 PM, James Edward Gray II
>> <james@graysoftinc.com> wrote:
>>> On Sep 4, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Benoit Daloze wrote:
>>> 
>>>> It would of course be even easier if Nokogiri was made the default.
>>> 
>>> Yeah, I'm surprised to see so little support for Nokogiri.  I would be very for adding it.
>> 
>> I have no particular objection to switching from REXML to Nokogiri,
>> but I would object to removing REXML without a replacement.  (Though
>> REXML has pretty much always met my needs just fine.)
> 
> I have a question about this REXML vs Nokogiri debate: does Nokogiri
> offer a REXML-compaitble interface? If this is the case (or if one
> could be easily written), then the Nokogiri / REXML replacement could
> happen without breaking anything

I agree. Couldn't we use the Syck/Psych transition as a model?

- Josh