FastXml 0.1.91 - first real release

= FastXml, a simple fast xml library using libxml and libxslt

== Overview

FastXml is:

not standalone, it requires libxml and libxslt

it attempts to provide the speediest xml parsing library available for

ruby

it provides an hpricot-like syntax for xml parsing and xslt processing

== Release Notes

This is the first public release, be gentle. Patches/bugs are welcome.

Here’s the output of a simple initial benchmark involving a relatively
large unicode file against it:
ruby ./benchmarks/unicode.rb
user system total real
fastxml.new 0.030000 0.010000 0.040000 ( 0.059105)
fastxml.to_s 0.010000 0.000000 0.010000 ( 0.014552)
fastxml.search 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 ( 0.001965)

hpricot.new 0.530000 0.020000 0.550000 ( 0.560611)
hpricot.to_s 0.160000 0.000000 0.160000 ( 0.162376)
hpricot.search 0.220000 0.010000 0.230000 ( 0.226655)

libxml.new 0.030000 0.000000 0.030000 ( 0.034130)
libxml.to_s 0.020000 0.000000 0.020000 ( 0.017132)
libxml.search 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 ( 0.002484)

REXML.new 1.080000 0.020000 1.100000 ( 1.126382)
REXML.to_s 0.230000 0.010000 0.240000 ( 0.241466)
REXML.xpath 89.200000 0.400000 89.600000 ( 89.817980)

xpath expression: //p
fastxml nodes: 10577
libxml nodes: 10577
hpricot nodes: 10577
REXML nodes: 10577

== Installation

this may take a bit to propagate through the mirrors.

gem install fastxml

or grab the source, build and use rake to install the gem

== Links
rubyforge page - http://rubyforge.org/projects/fastxml/
git repo - GitHub - segfault/fastxml: ruby libxml library targetting speed and ease of use. provides an hpricot-like interface to xml