From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-11-10T04:32:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24795] Re: ruby and webservices

Sean Russell <ser@germane-software.com> writes:

> Dave Thomas wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> The assumption is that the XML parser (the native version) would be 
> included with Ruby, so there would be no reason to use the Ruby 
> implementation.

The expat license seems to allow this with no restrictions. If we
include expat and xmlparser, then is people wanted higher-level XML
interfaces could they build on this?


Dave