I refer to Sam Ruby’s
massive
patch to make REXML work properly with the latest Ruby.
I’ve long disliked REXML (see
here and
here), but it’s here and it
works. Only the way it works changed in 1.9, and there were some
horrible regressions, and it gets patched very slowly. (I’m actually wondering
why Ruby needs to have a weird regex-based parser when Expat is plenty good
enough for Perl and Python, and in fact if you look at
xmlparser.rb
, you can switch parsers, just as Nick Sieger has done for
JRuby with
JREXML.
But I digress.)
In the short term, we need to see if the REXML maintainers are responsive
to Sam’s patch.
Comment feed for ongoing:
From: Sam Ruby (Jan 02 2008, at 03:28)
What REXML really needs is a RSpec.
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