From: Oliver Beddows <oliver@...>
Date: 2002-04-10T12:35:14+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby + Creating and extending XML documents

On Tuesday 09 April 2002 9:21 pm, you wrote:
> you could do something like
>
>
> require 'rexml/document'
> include REXML
> class MasterDocument < Document
>
> then you get all the tree API and XPath methods.
>
> Tobi

Hi,
Thanks, I'll have a look at REXML. A few questions if you do not mind:

- Is it not better to USE the class rather than inherit from it?
- Would it be quicker to make the 'masterDocument' an actual xml file. Then 	
load it using REXML as a DOM Tree, adding, changing, removing nodes from 			
there on? 
- Also, will loading a library such as REXML cause any significant overhead?

Again, thanks for your time.
Oliver.