From: "Skye Shaw!@#$" <skye.shaw@...>
Date: 2009-06-24T02:25:06+09:00
Subject: Re: HTML dom

On Jun 23, 8:55 am, Victor Tanvuia <victor.tanv...@tantanprod.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to build a HTML page indexer in ruby and I'd like to be able
> to use DOM and or XPath on a document. The application is currently
> using REXML

Yes, REXML can be awkward if you're used to using the DOM. IMHO.

> Is there a way to make REXML more permissive or is there another library

There's libxml bindings for Ruby, but I recall that library missing
getElementsByTagName and getElementsById. Though it does have a method
to query the DOM via Xpath.

Have you tried using REXML's SAX2 parser? I think it would be better
suited for your problem.

-Skye