[ruby-talk:12311] Re: [ANN] NQXML v2.0 adds DOM, DOCTYPE, and ENTITY

Hi,

Jim Menard <[e-mail]> wrote:
> I have not played with xmlparser's or expat's DOM interface at all. I *do*
> plan to create a writer that outputs XML from a Document object.
> 
> In summation, my feeling is that this is not C, it's Ruby. Let's show off
> what Ruby can do.

Do you know Paul Prescod's PullDOM/EasyDOM ? It's written in Python.

http://www.prescod.net/python/eventdom/
http://www.prescod.net/python/pulldom.html

IMHO your feeling is close to Paul's one (if we rewrite 'Pythonic'
to 'Rubystic(?)' :-)).

> That is indeed a strong point. I'll think about what it might take to
> support both the interface I am developing and the expat/xmlparser
> interface. I'm not keen on it, but will consider the possiblity if enough
> people feel a burning desire for compatability. I won't guarantee 100%
> percent compatability, though: I want NQXML to be elegant (for *my*
> definition of elegant) instead of a clone of expat.

If you invent elegant interface for Ruby, we will implement
the same interface using XMLParser's API, to parse huge size
XML quickly and correctly.


Regards,

TAKAHASHI Masayoshi ([e-mail])