From: "Pedro Côrte-Real" <pedrocr@...>
Date: 2006-06-30T00:01:08+09:00
Subject: Re: XML in ruby

On 6/29/06, Gordon Thiesfeld <gthiesfeld@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > I am using the stream parser. And although that seems a little slow
> > it's ok. What I'm stuck with being too slow is the XPath support. If I
> > can't get libxml to work I guess I'll have to end up creating a small
> > ruby extension just to wrap the C libxml xpath support. My needs are
> > very simple so this should be easy, but I was hoping there was another
> > way.
>
> You might take a look at http://teius.rubyforge.org.  I've been very happy with it.
>
> From the  teius wiki homepage:
>
>     Teius is really a tiny Ruby wrapper around the LibXML C library.

Seems great, but I couldn't install it. The gem threw a bunch of
errors when trying to compile. And it seems it only supports reading
from a file and not an IO or string. I'll have to look at the code.

Pedro.