REXML 3.1.5

REXML is a conformant XML processor for the Ruby programming language. REXML passes 100% of the Oasis non-validating tests and includes full XPath support.
REXML is reasonably fast, and is implemented in pure Ruby. Best of all, it has a clean, intuitive API. REXML is included in the standard library of Ruby.
This software is distribute under the Ruby license.
REXML arose out of a desire for a straightforward XML API, and is an attempt at an API that doesnt require constant referencing of documentation to do common tasks. "Keep the common case simple, and the uncommon, possible."
REXML avoids The DOM API, which violates the maxim of simplicity. It does provide a DOM model, but one that is Ruby-ized. It is an XML API oriented for Ruby programmers, not for XML programmers coming from Java.
Some of the common differences are that the Ruby API relies on block enumerations, rather than iterators. For example, the Java code:
for (Enumeration e=parent.getChildren(); e.hasMoreElements(); ) {
Element child = (Element)e.nextElement(); // Do something with child
}
in Ruby becomes:
parent.each_child{ |child| # Do something with child }
Cant you feel the peace and contentment in this block of code? Ruby is the language Buddha would have programmed in.
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Main features:
- Four intuitive parsing APIs.
- Intuitive, powerful, and reasonably fast tree parsing API (a-la DOM
- Fast stream parsing API (a-la SAX)1
- SAX2-based API2
- Pull parsing API.
- Small
- Reasonably fast (for interpreted code)
- Native Ruby
- Full XPath support3
- XML 1.0 conformant4
- ISO-8859-1, UNILE, UTF-16 and UTF-8 input and output; also, support for any encoding the iconv supports.
- Documentation
Enhancements:
- Bugfixes and a couple of feature requests were made.