From: Guido de Melo <guido.de-melo@...>
Date: 2005-11-15T00:27:16+09:00
Subject: Re: trouble reading a gzipped xml-file

Robert Klemme wrote:
> You're not closing f here.
> 
[...]
> 
> I'm not so sure that it fails just because of this.

It shouldn't, because ruby will determine the end of the file by itself 
and close the handle on exiting.

> Did you try this?
> 
> xmldoc = Zlib::GzipReader.open('file.dia') {|gz| REXML::Document.new gz}

irb(main):003:0> xmldoc = Zlib::GzipReader.open('file.dia') {|gz| 
REXML::Document.new gz}
RuntimeError: Zlib::GzipReader is not a valid input stream.  It must be
either a String, IO, StringIO or Source.

This doesn't work either, I'm afraid...
Guido