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Charles Woerner wrote:
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> Standardizing an API such as DOM across different languages is a nice
> goal. When I see a few lines of XML traversing code written in Ruby
> using DOM I immediately know what it's doing despite the fact that I've
> never coded a line of Ruby in my life.
But XML manipulation in Ruby will more than likely be done using REXML,
Ruby's bundled XML parser. It has a Ruby-centric API.
When the idea of having Ruby support XML "out of the box" first came up
a few years ago, the discussion centered on two views: Should Ruby
support the W3C DOM, requiring Rubyists to use a decidedly non-Ruby API
for XML tasks, or should a bundled parser have an API that would be
intuitive to reasonably experienced Ruby hacker?
The latter point of view won, and Ruby ships with REXML.
One *can* use libxml2 with Ruby, but I suspect this is selected over
REXML only when speed or memory are issues. For most day-to-day XML
handling, I think people are choosing the API that best meshes with the
language.
James Britt
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