# Nokogiri 1.2.1 Released

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**Created:** [February 24, 2009, 4:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nokogiri-1-2-1-released/161175 "2009-02-24T04:42:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 4:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nokogiri-1-2-1-released/161175/1 "2009-02-24T04:42:32Z")

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nokogiri version 1.2.1 has been released!

- [http://nokogiri.rubyforge.org/](http://nokogiri.rubyforge.org/)
- [http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/wikis](http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/wikis)
- [http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/tree/master](http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/tree/master)
- [http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/nokogiri-talk](http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/nokogiri-talk)
- [http://nokogiri.lighthouseapp.com/projects/19607-nokogiri/overview](http://nokogiri.lighthouseapp.com/projects/19607-nokogiri/overview)

Nokogiri (鋸) is an HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser.

Changes:

### 1.2.1 / 2008-02-23

- Bugfixes

## FEATURES:

- XPath support for document searching
- CSS3 selector support for document searching
- XML/HTML builder
- Drop in replacement for Hpricot (though not bug for bug)

Nokogiri parses and searches XML/HTML very quickly, and also has  
correctly implemented CSS3 selector support as well as XPath support.

Here is a speed test:

- [Result · GitHub](http://gist.github.com/24605)

Nokogiri also features an Hpricot compatibility layer to help ease the  
change  
to using correct CSS and XPath.

## SUPPORT:

The Nokogiri mailing list is available here:

- [http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/nokogiri-talk](http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/nokogiri-talk)

The bug tracker is available here:

- [Lighthouse - Beautifully Simple Issue Tracking](http://nokogiri.lighthouseapp.com/projects/19607-nokogiri/overview)

## SYNOPSIS:

require ‘nokogiri’  
require ‘open-uri’

doc =  
Nokogiri::HTML(open(‘[tenderlove - Google Search](http://www.google.com/search?q=tenderlove)’))

#### 

# Search for nodes by css

doc.css(‘h3.r a.l’).each do |link|  
puts link.content  
end

#### 

# Search for nodes by xpath

doc.xpath(‘//h3/a[@class=“l”]’).each do |link|  
puts link.content  
end

#### 

# Or mix and match.

doc.search(‘h3.r a.l’, ‘//h3/a[@class=“l”]’).each do |link|  
puts link.content  
end

## REQUIREMENTS:

- ruby 1.8 or 1.9
- libxml
- libxslt

## INSTALL:

- sudo gem install nokogiri

- [http://nokogiri.rubyforge.org/](http://nokogiri.rubyforge.org/)

- [http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/wikis](http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/wikis)

- [http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/tree/master](http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/tree/master)

- [http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/nokogiri-talk](http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/nokogiri-talk)

- [http://nokogiri.lighthouseapp.com/projects/19607-nokogiri/overview](http://nokogiri.lighthouseapp.com/projects/19607-nokogiri/overview)