From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2009-03-18T04:02:11+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] hpricot 0.7


On Mar 17, 2009, at 11:47 , matt neuburg wrote:

> _why <why@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm sure you're wondering what's the reason for Hpricot updates, in
>> the face of heated competition from the Nokogiri and LibXML
>> libraries. Remember that Hpricot has no dependencies and is smaller
>> than either of those libs. Hpricot uses its own Ragel-based
>> parser, so you have the freedom to hack the parser itself, the code
>> is dwarven by comparison.
>
> Also, isn't Hpricot more accepting of skanky HTML?

no. I've had a bug open for years on hpricot because it couldn't deal  
with the relatively simple forms on the trackers on rubyforge.org.  
nokogiri dealt with it perfectly and since mechanized migrated from  
hpricot to nokogiri I've had fewer issues overall.

I should reemphasize... YEARS. Even the bug tracker has since  
disappeared. This is where nokogiri really shines IMBO(*).

*) in my _biased_ opinion. I work/hang out with aaron patterson on a  
regular basis. That said, he fixes bugs I (and others--I watch) report  
in a timely basis.