From: Aleksi <foobar@...>
Date: 2005-04-04T03:49:48+09:00
Subject: SimpleXML for you

Here's my first version to bring PHP SimpleXML functionality into Ruby.

Few people claimed REXML isn't simple enough for them if they compare 
that to PHP simple way. If you don't know what's the PHP way, here's an 
introduction:

     http://php.net/simplexml

Let me know what do you think about it.

This code is by no means feature complete or even usable. If this 
matures and people feel the need for it, I'll package it properly. If 
there's votes for it, maybe working version could be put on top of 
REXML, maybe even included on it.

If I've understand correctly REXML is now bundled as a standard library. 
If not, maybe SimpleXML should have multiple backends for most popular 
libraries out there (NQXML, some of these C-based perhaps).

Here's the short documentation

   http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/kaniemel/SimpleXML/doc/

for your perusal, and of course the few hundred lines of dispatching code:

   http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/kaniemel/SimpleXML/

Thanks,

     - Aleksi