From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-09-19T19:17:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with Soap4R 1.5.0 and Ruby 1.8

il Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:22:35 +0900, "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi"
<nahi@keynauts.com> ha scritto::


>I downloaded and installed ruby180-10.exe from
>http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=67007
>It seems to work for me.
>
>  C:\ruby\bin>ruby -rxmlparser -e 'p XML::Parser.new'
>  #<XMLParser:0x2847d68>
>
>I've no idea now.  Is there anyone who met the error?
>

could it be related to the loading order of the variuos files ?
It seem that in file lib/xsd/xmlparser XMLParser is defined as a
module.
Is it possible that at some point appears a thing like this that
overrides the previous definiton of XMLParser as a class ?


>> require 'xsd/xmlparser'
=> true
>> XMLParser.class
=> Module
>> require 'xml/parser'
TypeError: XMLParser is not a class
        from
C:/Programmi/ruby-1.8/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-msvcrt/xmlpa
rser.so
        from
C:/Programmi/ruby-1.8/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/xml/parser.rb:5
        from (irb):3:in `require'
        from (irb):3
>>

It seem that the pragprog installer delivers 
ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\1.8\xml* 
(I think it is XMLParser from yoshida masato ) and that in this module
xmlparser.so defines ::XMLParser as a top level class, thus colliding
with the XMLParser definition of XMLParser as a module. 

BTW having REXML as the parser fix this problem.

just my 2 cents