From: Rich Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2001-11-10T02:53:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24781] Re: ruby and webservices

Or a pure Ruby parser that could be accelerated with a native library (if available).  Like a mixin, if installed.  That would ROCK!

-Rich

-----Original Message-----
From: dave@thomases.com [mailto:dave@thomases.com]On Behalf Of Dave
Thomas
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 12:22 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: [ruby-talk:24778] Re: ruby and webservices


"Julian Fitzell" <julian-ml@beta4.com> writes:

 > I also find the interface of expat difficult to use and would
 > rather have one less c library dependency for the main
 > distribution so I would vote for one of the Ruby implementations.
 > I haven't had a chance to write anything in REXML yet, though so
 > though I suspect I will prefer it I can't say for sure.

The trick would be to have a pure Ruby parser and a higher performance
C-based parser that were 100% compatible, so you could plug in the one
you wanted at run time.


Dave