From: Jan Luehr <jluehr@...>
Date: 2008-09-13T19:03:10+09:00
Subject: rexml alternatives

Hello,

I really like coding ruby or ruby on rails apps, but rexml often leads to
frustration.
- If I use xpath in watir-tests rexml takes plenty of time evaluating and
execution time jumps from seconds to minutes.
- Some rails apps I've written rely on rexml and xpath as well. I
encountered strange xpath-results that mysteriously went away when
upgrading ruby from 1.8.5 to 1.8.6. 
By that, rails apps using xpath developed on my laptop (Debian Lenny, Ruby
1.8.6) might fail in production on servers running debian etch.

Since Ruby does support C/C++ bindings, I wonder if anyone have tried to use
xerces instead (Googling for ruby-xerces shows a few posts but nothing
serious) or if there are any other alternatives to rexml.

Do you know any?
Thanks in advance,
Keep smiling
yanosz