From: Bryan Murphy <bryan@...>
Date: 2002-06-20T05:58:28+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML in C

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>> In all honesty, I really don't think you should be processing 300,000 
>> line XML files with any DOM-like XML interface. 
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>
> True.
>
> But REXML != tree API only; it also offers a stream API:
> http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml_doc/
> http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml_doc/classes/REXML/StreamListener.html 
>
>
> Tobi


That my dear sir, is a very good point!  However REXML's stream API 
doesn't handle Namespaces (at least not as far as I can tell).  A Ruby 
implementation of SAX2 is available here:

http://www.rubycolor.org/arc/rbsax-0.7.0pre0.tar.gz

And I highly recommend it.  It even has very nice and convenient 
interfaces for connecting to the other Ruby XML libraries!  I didn't 
create it, so I can't say anything about it's development status but in 
my work with it I've experienced no major problems.

Bryan