From: "Pedro Côrte-Real" <pedrocr@...>
Date: 2006-06-30T18:47:26+09:00
Subject: Re: XML in ruby

On 6/29/06, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2006/6/29, Pedro C�rte-Real <pedrocr@gmail.com>:
> > 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. [...] My needs are
> > very simple so this should be easy, but I was hoping there was another
> > way.
>
> If your needs are so simple then you should be able to handle this
> with the stream parser - you'll likely have to only remember all nodes
> on the stack (probably along with their attributes, depending on what
> criteria you have to apply) and then decide what to do with the
> current node.

Not really, because I want to support arbitrary XPath's and I'm not
going to implement a XPath engine by myself. The XPath's aren't an
internal thing, they're defined in a config file to get stuff from the
XML, so I want full XPath support.

Pedro.