From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2010-01-22T05:43:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Should Nokogiri replace REXML?

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Luis Lavena <luislavena@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 21, 4:17 pm, Jordi Bunster <jo...@bunster.org> wrote:
>> Wouldn't that make it really hard for the non C-based Ruby implementations?
>
> Well, Nokogiri was ported to JRuby using FFI. Which means can work on
> MacRuby and MagLev possibly.
>
> http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/tree/java
>
> Dunno it's status but seems pretty doable.

FFI is great, but it's only usable where you have libxml available (a
problem for the C ext as well) and where you are allowed to use it (a
big problem for JRuby users on Google App Engine, Android, or secure
environments where native libraries are forbidden).

The only perfect solution for JRuby is a pure-Java Nokogiri.

- Charlie