From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2010-01-22T05:35:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Should Nokogiri replace REXML?

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Jordi Bunster <jordi@bunster.org> wrote:
> Wouldn't that make it really hard for the non C-based Ruby implementations?

Yes, it would. But if someone wants to help implement the remaining
bits of the pure-Java Nokogiri, we'll be pretty close in JRuby.

http://www.serabe.com/2009/12/31/helping-nokogiri-take-ii/

Unfortunately libxml encompasses a *lot* of functionality not
typically included in the many Java XML parser (like bad HTML
scrubbing), so including all of Nokogiri would introduce a lot of
dependencies. Ideally I'd like to see a Nokogiri "lite" that just
provides the W3C APIs for DOM, SAX, and pull parsing, and allows you
to pull in "Nokogiri HTML" or some other library for doing HTML
scrubbing.

- Charlie