From: Markus Jais Date: 2001-11-13T17:48:54+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:24990] Re: XML libraries (Re: Re: ruby and webser vices) In article <8D96EDA0AC04D31197B400A0C96C148003C0471B@ossex1.corp.webb.net>, "Ben Schumacher" wrote: > I'm curious, is there a "Ruby way" library in existence already? I'm > working (although slowly) a Jabber library for Ruby which I'd like to > program in the "Ruby way". As it stands, I've been using NQXML, because > this was the first I found and I had trouble getting XMLParser to work > with XML-fragments (which the Jabber protocol uses). > > I haven't played with REXML yet, but when first investigating which XML > parser to use it wasn't available. I might go check it out, but I would > be quite happy to find one that's intuitive and one programmed pure-Ruby > is a plus. > hi, I started playing with rexml a few weeks ago and I really like it. it is very much like "the ruby way" in my opinion. and it is written in pure Ruby. Of course this is not always the fastest solution but for must tasks, it should be very good. and the API is very intuitive and easy IMHO. I can only recommend that you give it a try. markus > Ben > > -----Original Message----- > From: matz@ruby-lang.org [mailto:matz@ruby-lang.org] Sent: Saturday, > November 10, 2001 6:44 AM To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org > Subject: [ruby-talk:24828] Re: XML libraries (Re: Re: ruby and > webservices) > > > Hi, > > In message "[ruby-talk:24811] Re: XML libraries (Re: Re: ruby and > webservices)" > on 01/11/10, "James Britt (rubydev)" writes: > > |The concerns about which any given Ruby XML library does makes me > wonder what, exactly, "XML out of the box" means. > > I'm not sure. It should be decided by discussion, especially among XML > people. I was thinking bundling "Ruby way" library, but others may have > different ideas. > > matz.