From: Rich Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2002-03-20T11:10:15+09:00
Subject: RE: REXML 2.0

You rock dude!

REXML is one of the best libraries for Ruby (and getting better)

Sorry about the job situation, but thanks for REXML.

-Rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Russell [mailto:ser@germane-software.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 8:41 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: ANN: REXML 2.0
> 
> 
> I have a feeling there will only be three major revisions of 
> REXML.  Version 
> 1 mostly got the XML parsing itself nailed down.
> 
> This is version 2, and it provides full XPath support.  Yes, full, true, 
> honest-to-god XPath support.  Well, there are known bugs, but this time, 
> they're really just bugs, and they'll be fixed in short order.
> 
> Grab version 2.0 from the usual place:
> 
>    http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml
> 
> and send me those XPath bug reports, preferably in the form of 
> unit tests.  
> If you send unit tests, I'll not only fix your bugs more quickly, 
> but I'll 
> personally email you a patch that fixes the problem.
> 
> So what, you may ask, will version 3.0 provide?  Why, DTD and XMLSchema 
> support, of course.  When will 3.0 be out?  I don't yet know.  I 
> want XPath 
> to be very stable and reliable and, most of all, /correct/, 
> before I start 
> worrying about 3.0.
> 
> BTW, I'm currently between jobs.  If you need contracting (Java 
> or Ruby), or 
> know of someone who does, please let me know.  My unemployment has been 
> good for REXML, but development will stop when they shut off my 
> power.  ;-)
> 
> --- SER