> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl / simonstl.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 7:44 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: [ruby-talk:25138] Re: XML support in the standard lib;
> whatexactly?
>
> > While this is true, people coming to Ruby with prior XML experience will likley expect a DOM API, plus whatever else
> Ruby offers.
>
> I don't know about that.  I came to Ruby in February, thinking that it
> looked like a great language for dealing with markup.

OK, let me rephrase that: many people lured to Ruby by the mention of XML will likley expect a DOM API.  Certainly, if you're
looking to *write* an XML API Ruby is quite good, though the absence of Unicode support is a problem.


>
> A variety of issues - especially Unicode support - drove me back to
> Java, where I'm merrily creating my own API for working with XML.  The
> DOM itself is hardly my favorite API.  I'd have been a lot happier with
> Ruby if it had a friendly API for manipulating XML, DOM or not.

Was REXML available when you first looked at Ruby?

James