From: Alex Wayne <rubyonrails@...>
Date: 2008-04-04T07:16:28+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby xml parser opinions?

Andy Koch wrote:
> I'm revisiting an app that uses libxml for xml work.  Wondering if
> anyone has opinions on what is the best available XML parser for Ruby?
> 
> REXML seems to get trashed at every opportunity.  Hpricot is getting
> some good press, but is it better than libxml?  Most posts I've seen
> when someone chooses hpricot over libxml is because they are running
> on Windows.
> 
> Found this post "http://yomi.at/archives/19" which seems recent and
> clearly shows libxml as the parser of choice when speed is the primary
> consideration.
> 
> Any thoughts?

Hpricot is awesome, but if I need to have anything that parses 
namespaces, I use REXML.  I don't like REXML at all, but it handles 
namespaces well enough.  Hpricot is so easy to use you have ever used 
CSS that its hard not to recommend.
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