Are you tired of strange REXML behaviour? Do you need twice the
performance when dealing with XML? Are you stuck with the REXML API
because your code uses it everywhere? You're not alone.


This not an offense. I deeply respect Sean Russell's work and the
amount of time that has went into the project. I won't be able to do
better, but have had problems more than one time with REXML.


In XMPP4R we're bound to the very intuitive REXML API because that's
what XMPP4R is about: dealing with XML. I thought the only way out
would be resembling it. That's why I have started REXML-dropin, a
wrapper around libxml:

http://github.com/astro/rexml-dropin/


To be honest, I'm not convinced by libxml-ruby's code, but it looks
way cleaner than REXML. So far, I'm able to run a basic XMPP client
with it. There's a lot left to be done, go ahead and fork it.


Dependencies:
* libxml-parser-ruby: http://www.yoshidam.net/Ruby.html#xmlparser
* libxml-ruby beyond 0.8.3/SVN r524: http://libxml.rubyforge.org/
* require 'rexml' first!