From: Emmanuel Surleau <emmanuel.surleau@...>
Date: 2008-09-13T22:51:58+09:00
Subject: Re: rexml alternatives

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You can try libxml-ruby, I hear it's been rewritten and should be working
pretty well now. Otherwise there's hpricot, while not supporting real XPATH,
can get you pretty far. But libxml-ruby will be faster.

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Jan Luehr <jluehr@gmx.net> wrote:

> 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
>
>

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