Guerry A. Semones wrote:
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>Dave Thomas wrote:
>> What would it take to write a non-validating parser in Ruby? (Or is
>> there one already?)
>
>This is one of the first things I looked for when a friend turned me
>onto Ruby a few weeks ago.  I was glad to see the expat support, but
>raised the same question that both you and Aaron have now raised: what
>would it take and why not?  The specs are out there and Ruby
>definately has the toolsets to do the parsing.  I'd guess speed might
>be the main concern....

Any speed pain points could be optimized and/or 
recoded in small C files. 

Ok. So what would this Ruby/XML thing do? Is it 
enough to be SAX-like? Or does it need to be true 
SAX? 

Does it also need DOM abilities? Could these be 
in separate libraries?

Could we simply port the Python XML parser to 
Ruby?

Kevin