From: Bob Hutchison Date: 2001-11-23T23:15:33+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:26228] Re: NQXML Conformance (was Re: Conformance Test of XML Parsers in Ruby(20011122)) What I meant by 'extend' is 'subclass' or 'derrive' (NOT adding functionality to the existing string class) On 01/11/23 8:44 AM, "Bob Hutchison" wrote: > > (immediate) "solutions" used there: extend the string class to handle UTF-8 > characters; and, load the UTF-8 data into the existing string class and