From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2002-05-31T06:05:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, XML schema( RELAX NG) and a Q&D parser

bbense+comp.lang.ruby.May.30.02@telemark.stanford.edu wrote:

> - - How hard would it be to use ruby to write a tools to take
>   the RELAX NG schema description and write out a C parser?
>   Ideally, I'd like to go from XML to a C struct.
> 
> - - I'd guess REXML and Rock'it would be places to start, any
>   other hints.

REXML won't help you here, because REXML /barely/ deals with internal DTDs, 
and doesn't have any native XMLSchema support (yet).  What you want sounds 
like a lot of work, to me.

I know I'm the REXML guy, but from what I understand about what you want, 
I'd /strongly/ recommend going with XMLParser.  Your primary concerns are 
speed and streaming, and you don't care about being dependant on a native 
library.  This is XMLParser in a nutshell.  Its streaming parser is quite 
fast.

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