Dave Thomas wrote:

# To do that with the current scheme would require that every client
# have the Ruby xmlparser module installed, which in turn requires Jim
# Clark's expat library. This seems onerous!

Well, for ri display purposes in present circumstances, I'd agree.

However! ...

IMHO, all future Ruby distributions (tgz, InstallShield) ought to be 
"XML-ready" out of the box.

I think XML is going to be the "sort-of next big thing"--i.e. not *that* 
big, but big *enough* to matter. (Where's my marketing hat. Ahh, here it 
is. "Why dork around with Perl, Python, or Tcl when Ruby supports XML out 
of the box?")

Hmm. Can this be an RCR?

Conrad Schneiker
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