From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2002-03-21T18:28:56+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: REXML 2.0

Stefan Scholl wrote:


> I've written a program which parses some text files and generates a
> XML file. It's a bit slow, but there was no need for profiling or
> optimizing. That was yesterday with REXML 1.2.7. Ca. 1 3/4 minutes.
> 
> Today I've interrupted a test after about 8 minutes. The program seems
> to go into an endless loop at a point where it has to find an element
> with XPath, change an attribute of a child of it, and sometimes insert
> a new element after that child.
> 
> Unfortunatly I've no time to write a small test.


At least post some code :)

(a tiny RUnit test for an existing problematic XPath shouldn't take more 
than 10 minutes)

Tobi

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