From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2010-07-17T10:15:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Hpricot test for equivalence of two xml segments?

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On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 09:03:21AM +0900, Xeno Campanoli / Eskimo North and=
 Gmail wrote:
>=20
> >>The only thing I am concerned about is permutations of attributes inside
> >>the tags.  Everything else I'm seeing is regular.  Is there something w=
here
> >>I can parse all the tags in a segment and tell if they are equivalent a=
nd
> >>just have the attributes in different orders?  I'm not even concerned a=
bout
> >>different tag forms.  We don't see that.  A typical example is:
> >>
> >><  <li><img src=3D"/my/image/path/thingy.jpg" alt=3D"alt text" />My Tex=
t</li>
> >>><li><img alt=3D"alt text" src=3D"/my/image/path/thingy.jpg" />My Text<=
/li>
> >>
> >>I need to have something that can help me judge such things as equivale=
nt.
> >>Again, I NEVER see tag permutations, but just attribute permutations.
> >>
>=20
> I believe you.  Nokogirl wouldn't install though...yes, and nor did Lorax=
=2E..

Do you mind emailing our list with the problems?  We do our best to make
sure that nokogiri works on most systems, so if you're having trouble
we'd love to hear about it:

  http://groups.google.com/group/nokogiri-talk

> Looks like there's an install site, but I hesitate to use something
> this outside the mainstream on a project like this.  I don't want to
> impose needless maintenance problems on my environment.

I'm not sure that nokogiri is outside the mainstream.  Take a look at
our gem downlods vs the hpricot gem downloads:

  http://rubygems.org/gems/nokogiri
  http://rubygems.org/gems/hpricot

Or the frequency of commits:

  http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/commits/master
  http://github.com/hpricot/hpricot/commits/master

Or the mailing list activity:

  http://groups.google.com/group/nokogiri-talk
  http://librelist.com/browser/hpricot/

But "mainstream" is a judgement is for you to make!  :-)

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Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/

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