rexml-dropin
- Published September 29th, 2008 in Ruby
If you’re a Ruby developer you know by now that REXML has to be one of the least efficient XML parsers around. It’s easy to use, it comes bundled with Ruby and it doesn’t get in your way, but it’s painfully slow.
If you’re developing something from scratch you’d rather use libxml, Gnome’s XML C parser. But if you’re using a third-party software that uses REXML you’re stuck to it. Well, kind of.
rexml-dropin is a newborn project that wraps around REXML but uses libxml instead. It’s still under development but it’s quite promising. It’s been successfully used with xmpp4r, a Ruby XMPP client.
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