From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-07-09T20:30:11+09:00
Subject: Re: xml parser + dom + robust + speed = ?

Pete wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> can somebody suggest a good parser that offers:
> 
> - multiple encodings
> - production-like quality
> - dom tree manipulation
> - good performance
> 
> is REXML the only choice or are there others?

There's also libxml and probably others:
http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby+xml

However, note that DOM and performance nearly automatically exclude each 
other.  Depending on what you do stream parsing is almost always faster 
and uses less memory.

Kind regards

	robert