From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-05-15T06:50:15+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: REXML 2.3.3

In article <3ce15eac@news.mhogaming.com>,
Sean Russell  <ser@germane-software.com> wrote:
>Getting tired of the upgrades yet?
>
>Here's the changelog:
>
>2.3.3: 
>* Added an alternate pretty printer by Thomas Sawyer; it is in the contrib/ 
>directory. 
>* Speed optimizations; REXML is noticably faster now. In particular, 
>PullParser is now just as fast as Stream parsing (10x speed increase over 
>first version). 
>* Fixed a bug in Element.add_namespace. 
>* Fixed a problem that occurred on some systems with Entities (I /think/ it 
>is fixed.)
>* Mike Stock fixed a bug in the starts_with XPath function. 
>* Added, on request, methods to Element to filter children on type. 
>cdatas(), instructions(), comments(), and texts() now return immutable 
>arrays of only those child nodes. 
>* News: Kouhei Sutou has done a Japanese translation of the REXML API docs. 
>See the section in the main REXML page about the API documentation for 
>links to the Japanese version. Note that the translated pages have banners; 
>these are not associated with REXML in any way.
>
>The REXML homepage is:
>
>   http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml
>

Sean,

Your constant improvment of REXML is an inspiration (I need to update my 
modules more regularly :).  Thanks for all your hard work.  It looks to me 
(I'm not an XML expert, though) that REXML is becoming a potent force in 
the XML parsing world and will probably attract some new Rubyists. ;-) 

Phil