From: han.holl@... (Han Holl)
Date: 2003-04-17T20:01:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Libxml SAX parser?

Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> wrote in message news:<20030417011450.GN79923@perrin.int.nxad.com>...
> 
> I haven't completed the SAX handlers, there's just some infrastructure
> for it.  I prefer the text reader interface over SAX, but I haven't
> done either since I haven't had a need to support SAX.  DOM + XPath
> has satisfied all of my needs to date.  patches welcome though.  :)
> Nag me enough about it, and I'll get to it, but it's not that high on
> my list of things to work on.
> 
No, I won't nag you about it. If you don't need it, you don't need it.
It's just surprising how little choice there is if you need to grab
xml-documents from an input stream.
As far as I can see, libxml2 doesn't support this at all, so a ruby
wrapper, even with SAX would do me no good.
I tried xmlparser, which claims to have an stream constructor, but this 
is so bug-ridden I had to give up.
I could yet try xmlscan, but it's pure ruby, and I doubt the performance
win over REXML would be earth-shattering. And xmlscan isn't really well
documented.

So I'll stick with REXML for the time being.

Cheers,

Han Holl