From: jbshaldane@... (haldane)
Date: 2004-07-07T05:32:37+09:00
Subject: REXML problem

I am trying to read from a zlib GzipReader with REXML (actually with
SOAP, it's using REXML).

But it fails with "Unknown source type!"

Can this be fixed in document.rb?

The code looks like this:

if source.kind_of? Source
  # do nothing
elsif source.kind_of?  IO
  source = IOSource.new(source)
elsif source.kind_of? String
  source = Source.new source
else
  raise "Unknown source type!"
end

The trouble is that GzipReader is not a subclass of IO.  However, it
behaves enough like an IO object to be used as one.  A case for duck
typing?

Stephen Sykes