XML Parser for Ruby

Question

Looking for something similar to xerces for parsing an xml file in ruby. I saw the native processor REXML and another called hpricot (though I can't find any documentation on hpricot, the links all appear to be dead). I'm looking for something that would parse an xml document via SAX2 in ruby.

TIA.

Sedillo

Most of the hpricot links are broken because _why was the developer, and he managed to almost completely remove himself from the internet a few weeks ago. GitHub has a mirror up now (github.com/whymirror/hpricot/tree/master) – Franek

Answer 1

I've been successful with the Nokogiri SAX Parser

Waftage

Nokogiri really is the best thing out there. It's nice and clean, without too much magic. – Distil

Answer 2

Apart from those already mentioned, the other mainstream alternative is probably LibXML

Buxton

Answer 3

There are two fast BLAST XML parsers for Ruby, which are easy to understand examples of iterative lazy parsing, using a C extension for the low-level XML parsing. Both are based on libxml2 and Nokogiri. Nokogiri because the performance rocks. See http://biogems.info to find the two parsers.

Hygienics