= 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 - http://github.com/segfault/fastxml/