REXML Tutorial - Home

Two of my passions right now are Ruby and XML. REXML is a library that fits both of those. It allows writing very clear, concise Ruby programs to process XML input.

I have already messed around with it a little bit while writing a utility to process RSS feeds.

REXML Tutorial - Home:

REXML supports both tree and stream document parsing. Stream parsing is faster (about 1.5 times as fast). However, with stream parsing, you don't get access to features such as XPath.