Reporting Bugs about REXML?

Ruby
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Hi,

where would I report a bug about ruby REXML?

I did not yet find a proper way to report any bug. Starting at
ruby-lang.org I came to redmine.org and registered, but then I just
get an empty list of issues assigned to me and another empty list of
issues, but no way to enter a new issue.

Is there any bug tracking for ruby ?

regards
Hadmut

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On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Hadmut D. [email protected]
wrote:

Hi,

where would I report a bug about ruby REXML?

I did not yet find a proper way to report any bug. Starting at
ruby-lang.org I came to redmine.org and registered, but then I just
get an empty list of issues assigned to me and another empty list of
issues, but no way to enter a new issue.

Hmm IIRC that would be on ruby-core

HTH
R.

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On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 01:05:34AM +0900, Robert D. wrote:

Hmm IIRC that would be on ruby-core

I recently have asked a question about the standard library on
ruby-core and was told that this is not what ruby-core is for…

regards
Hadmut

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On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 02:08:01AM +0900, Hadmut D. wrote:

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 01:05:34AM +0900, Robert D. wrote:

Hmm IIRC that would be on ruby-core

I recently have asked a question about the standard library on
ruby-core and was told that this is not what ruby-core is for…

If you have a bug, not a question about how to use the standard library,
ruby-core is the correct mailing list.

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On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Michael J.
[email protected]wrote:

Just FYI, REXML is probably the worst possible XML library available
for Ruby so I wouldn’t waste my time with it if I were you. There are
lots of better alternatives out there, including libxml-ruby and
Nokogiri.

This blog post might be relevant to your interest:
Directed Edge - Blog - Making ActiveResource 34x faster: QActiveResource
I know this isn’t a rails mailing list, but if speed is of utmost
important,
this might not be a bad route.

Andrew McElroy

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Just FYI, REXML is probably the worst possible XML library available
for Ruby so I wouldn’t waste my time with it if I were you. There are
lots of better alternatives out there, including libxml-ruby and
Nokogiri.

Michael

–
Michael J.

@mjijackson

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On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Hadmut D. [email protected]
wrote:

Well, I feel a little bit annoyed about such recommendations like
“don’t use what comes with ruby, get some much better stuff from xyz”,
Ruby is a wonderful programming language, but should that not be a
reason not to have wonderful extensions and/or bindings.
It is completely normal that bindings to high class libraries as xml
will beat built in stuff like REXML.
I am sure that we all pointed out here is meaning if by any means
REXML does not do your job, no worries there are other solutions.
Maybe that was not clear.
I’ll expect ruby to come with working stuff.
So do I and AAMOF Ruby complies. And sorry for insisting but REXML is
not broken, just limited, mainly in performance.
end

does not find anything either.
If you provided the document one might be able to help.

Cheers
Robert

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On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 07:55:44AM +0900, Michael J. wrote:

Just FYI, REXML is probably the worst possible XML library available
for Ruby so I wouldn’t waste my time with it if I were you. There are
lots of better alternatives out there, including libxml-ruby and
Nokogiri.

Well, I feel a little bit annoyed about such recommendations like
“don’t use what comes with ruby, get some much better stuff from xyz”,
I’ll expect ruby to come with working stuff.

The documentation of the libxml-ruby of current ubuntu (generated with
rdoc) is poor. Sometimes it referes to empty pages.

And something like

dc = xml.find("/document-content")

dc.each do |node|
puts “Node #{node}”
end

does not find anything either.

regards
Hadmut

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2010/5/23 Hadmut D. [email protected]:

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 07:55:44AM +0900, Michael J. wrote:

Just FYI, REXML is probably the worst possible XML library available
for Ruby so I wouldn’t waste my time with it if I were you. There are
lots of better alternatives out there, including libxml-ruby and
Nokogiri.

Well, I feel a little bit annoyed about such recommendations like
“don’t use what comes with ruby, get some much better stuff from xyz”,
I’ll expect ruby to come with working stuff.

I don’t agree to that assessment of Michael. Whenever I have to deal
with XML in Ruby REXML is my first choice and it has worked out
remarkably well (if you ignore performance).

The documentation of the libxml-ruby of current ubuntu (generated with
rdoc) is poor. Sometimes it referes to empty pages.

And something like

dc = xml.find(“/document-content”)

IIRC XPath notation this will only find element “document-content” at
root level. You probably rather want “//document-content”.

dc.each do |node|
puts “Node #{node}”
end

does not find anything either.

I second Robert, please show the document and probably a bit more code.

Kind regards

robert