From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2011-04-08T14:03:00+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML Speed Question


On Apr 7, 2011, at 21:00 , Kyle X. wrote:

> Hello, I have been using REXML to extract information from an XML file
> and I am having an issue with the amount of time it is taking.  If I
> point directly to what I want it is pretty fast.  The issue arises when
> I have to grab a reference id, then research for that id to get another
> id, until I finally get to the piece of information I want.  This is
> what a snippet my code currently looks like:

Switch to nokogiri and you'll be much much happier.