(Ruby or BSD) and Public Domain and MIT and CC0 and zlib and UCD
REXML was inspired by the Electric XML library for Java, which features an easy-to-use API, small size, and speed. Hopefully, REXML, designed with the same philosophy, has these same features. I've tried to keep the API as intuitive as possible, and have followed the Ruby methodology for method naming and code flow, rather than mirroring the Java API. 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.
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Object-oriented scripting language interpreter
Ruby is a fast and easy interpreted scripting language for object-oriented programming. It has many functions for processing text Files and perform system management tasks (such as Perl).
Ruby standard for wrapping ruby libraries
The Ruby standard for publishing and managing third party libraries provided by RubyGems.