From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...>
Date: 2004-03-19T23:37:49+09:00
Subject: Re: too much xml the base library?

Hi,

> From: "gabriele renzi" <surrender_it@rc1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 7:09 PM

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

Yes.

> 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 ?

As SER stated, every processors has own advantage.
Tons of features, memory footprint, speed, character encoding
support, API fravour, etc. etc.  Users should choose his/her
processor.

...but to say the truth, I'm tired of supporting distinguishing
processors.  Xmlscan will be the first class XML processor of
the next release of soap4r.

I wish if we had RAXP (JAXP for Ruby).

Regards,
// NaHi