From: "James Britt (rubydev)" <james@...>
Date: 2001-11-15T09:55:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25233] Re: XML support in the standard lib;whatexactly?

> I'm not saying that ruby needs to only provide access to its XML via
> DOM.  I don't even think having DOM should be a central priority for
> XML parsing in Ruby.  But many xml components and libraries which
> might be ported to Ruby will be ported more directly if a DOM api
> exists in ruby. Because DOM is already familiar to many programmers
> outside of Ruby, this also might be a way to attract XML programmers.
> I think theres plenty of room for Ruby to have a ruby-way API as well
> as industry standard XML API's.  Open source is all about letting
> people work in thier area of need/interest and collaborating in a
> coordinated fashion.

Exactly.  If there were a ranking of XML APIs in Ruby, I sure wouldn't put the DOM first, but some of the comments so far suggest
that the W3C DOM, being fiendishly ugly, doesn't deserve any support, and should be discarded.

The point of including a Ruby DOM object is to make life easier for people who see Ruby as another way to mange XML (as opposed to
seeing XML as being another thing you can manage with with Ruby).

James


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