| 1 | REXML is an XML parser for Ruby, in Ruby. |
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| 3 | URL: http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml |
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| 4 | Author: Sean Russell <ser@germane-software.com> |
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| 5 | Version: @ANT_VERSION@ |
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| 6 | Date: @ANT_DATE@ |
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| 11 | Short Description: |
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| 12 | REXML is an XML 1.0 compliant, reasonably fast, non-validating XML parser. |
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| 13 | It has an API that is designed to be intuitive, straightforward. and terse. |
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| 14 | REXML includes a tree model parser, a SAX2 streaming parser, and a pull |
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| 15 | parser. It also includes a full XPath implementation. All of REXML's |
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| 16 | parsers pass 100% of the Oasis XML non-validating tests. |
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| 18 | Why did I write REXML? At the time of this writing, there were already |
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| 19 | two XML parsers for Ruby. The first is a Ruby binding to a native XML |
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| 20 | parser. This is a fast parser, using proven technology. However, |
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| 21 | it isn't very portable. The second is a native Ruby implementation, but |
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| 22 | I didn't like its API very much. Neither of these provide all three |
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| 23 | parsers, and neither provide XPath implementations. However, I primarily |
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| 24 | wrote REXML so that I could have access to an API that doesn't contain |
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| 25 | a lot of cruft, and is intuitive. |
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| 27 | API documentation can be downloaded from the REXML home page, or can |
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| 28 | be accessed online at http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml/doc. |
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| 29 | A tutorial is available in docs/tutorial.html. Japanese translations of |
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| 30 | the API documentation are located at |
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| 31 | http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml_doc_ja. |
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| 33 | This is the third major iteration of REXML. |
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| 35 | --- SER |
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