From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-11-16T20:59:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25409] Re: XML support in the standard lib;whatexactly?

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nat Pryce wrote:

> So, my opinion is that the standard library should include a streaming
> parser and a Rubyesque document API that includes XPath and XSLT, but that a
> DOM API should be distributed separately from the standard library.
> 
IMHO, this was an important clarification. Thanks Nat.

May I add that IMHO, anything that goes into the standard Ruby
distribution should have a Rubyesque API (ie. clean, simple,
intuitive while still powerful) since it will be part of the
total experience called Ruby. On the flip side, I don't think there
should be stuff in the std distribution that does not have a Rubyesque
API simply because it has to support a standard. But of course existing
standards influences what makes for "least surprise" so in the end
there might not be that much of a difference.

When you guys start discussing big and hairy DOM, SAX and whatever API's
(ok, I'm ignorant) small little Ruby'ers like me get scared. Don't you
forget that! ;-)

Anyway, Matz is there as the final arbiter and he is on the side of the
humans in us (even the weak once, eh?) so nothing to worry about... ;-)

/Robert