REXML is an XML parser for Ruby, in Ruby.
URL: http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml
Author: Sean Russell <ser@germane-software.com>
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Short Description:
REXML is an XML 1.0 compliant, reasonably fast, non-validating XML parser.
It has an API that is designed to be intuitive, straightforward. and terse.
REXML includes a tree model parser, a SAX2 streaming parser, and a pull
parser. It also includes a full XPath implementation. All of REXML's
parsers pass 100% of the Oasis XML non-validating tests.
Why did I write REXML? At the time of this writing, there were already
two XML parsers for Ruby. The first is a Ruby binding to a native XML
parser. This is a fast parser, using proven technology. However,
it isn't very portable. The second is a native Ruby implementation, but
I didn't like its API very much. Neither of these provide all three
parsers, and neither provide XPath implementations. However, I primarily
wrote REXML so that I could have access to an API that doesn't contain
a lot of cruft, and is intuitive.
API documentation can be downloaded from the REXML home page, or can
be accessed online at http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml/doc.
A tutorial is available in docs/tutorial.html. Japanese translations of
the API documentation are located at
http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml_doc_ja.
This is the third major iteration of REXML.
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