From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-11-16T08:06:51+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25357] Re: ruby and XSLT4R and Rexml

Markus Jais wrote:
> hello
> I just download xslt4r-0_0_1
> and looked at the source code.
>
> there is a 
> "require xpathtree"
> can somebody tell me, where to find xpathtree????
> there comes no xpathtree with xslt4r and I can not find one
> at the RAA

There is a not yet released library xmlscan which is a XML parser
including an implementation of XPath.

I've made a second version 0.0.2 (no changes except that the parameter
"arguments" of XSLT::Stylesheet#initialize now takes a Hash instead of
an Array of key=value pairs). This includes in the "redist" directory 
the xmlscan library.
Please download it from RAA.

> is xslt4r using the XPATH implementation from REXML??
> maybe this would be a good idea because the Xpath implementation
> from Rexml looks very good

At the time I wrote XSLT4R there was no other XPath implementation
available.

> I got the source code for the development version from Sean Russel a few days
> ago in order to help him testing and till now, I was not able to find any
> error.

> I think, a good XSLT implementation for Ruby is very important.

Yes, it is very important. 
XSLT4R works for me, but it's not capable of all features that are in the spec of XSLT.
It was just a proof-of-concept hack.

> I really would appreciate any comments because I like to understand the
> sources from xslt4r!

don't ask me about the sourcecode ;-)

> regards
> markus

Regards,

  Michael


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