From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2002-03-30T19:00:24+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: REXML 2.0

Sean O'Dell wrote:

> I was just going to ask about documentation for REXML.  I couldn't find much
> at the REXML web site; not sure if what's there is incomplete or maybe the
> documentation system there is broken right now.

True; it looked better before.

http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml/doc/classes/REXML/StreamListener.html
for example seems strange:

Public Instance methods
 attlistdecl%params% 
 cdata%params% 
 comment%params% 
 doctype%params% 
 elementdecl%params% 
....

Here is an example of how RDoc stuff can look:
http://www.locana.org/
http://www.locana.org/classes/LocanaBuilder.html

> I just want some documentation on REXML, the classes, the class methods, the
> parameters they want, what each method does, perhaps even with a little bit
> of example code for each method.

That's what was there before, and what probably will be there again, @
http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml/doc/index.html

FYI: REXML is an XML toolkit:
a) parser b) XML manipulation trhrough tree and stream APIs c)
serializer/writer

Tutorial:
http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml/docs/tutorial.html

Tobi