From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-03-18T19:09:33+09:00
Subject: too much xml the base library?

Hi gurus and nubys,


I understand that when XMLRPC4R or SOAP4R were written it made sense
to support as many xmlish parsers as possibile, but as they're bundled
with REXML, now, what is the logic in still supporting all this
parsers?

Looking at XMLRPC it seem that it can use as a backend:
REXML
NQXML
XMLScan
XMLTree

IIRC SOAP4R supported nqxml too, but it seem is not there anymore,now.
IT still has support for rexml, xmlparser (?) and xmlscan.

Is there a reason to have all this xml backends? 
I mean, is just that rexml is a fallback choice in case anyone of this
other parsers are not there ? 

I believe, i.e., that xmlscan is faster than rexml. 
But when I last heard of xmlscan the lightweight api of rexml was'nt
there yet..