I would like to be able to attach a DTD to an HTML document so that the id() xpath function works.

I don't know if this really a bug or if I'm being really stupid, but here goes:

So, when you have a double quote character inside your attribute value, nokogiri does this

attribute='a string with a double " quote'

Unfortunately, this is making the xerces java parser (or whatever parser Openfire uses) throw a hissy fit. While I understand this may be a xerces bug (OWPOU), not a nokogiri one, it would still be nice if we could have the option of using

attribute="a string with a double " quote"

(I tried using send(:native_content=, "...") but that has the same result.

Reproduce

Nokogiri::XML(open('http://www.cite-sciences.fr/rss/ressources/fr/faq_fr_20.xml').read, nil, 'UTF-8', 18543)

Nokogiri::XML::SyntaxError: Unsupported encoding UTF-85

This xml, not valid becouse <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-85"> but encoding set global.

Thanks for nokogiri ^-^.

We might want to write up some docs that present functionality broken down the same way that jQuery's docs do it (which I find totally useful and obvious):

• core (parsing)
• selectors
• attributes
• traversing
• manipulation

id2ref is slow and may be turned off by default in JRuby 1.4.

discussed with wmeissner, and the probable path is to build an API into FFI that is an hash table containing address => weakref(ruby_object).

we should open JIRA tickets for vararg support in FFI callbacks

then we should format the libxml error messages properly in the error/exception callbacks

should be in JRuby 1.3 final, not sure about MRI-FFI right now. in particular, this can be used in SAX parser implementation.

Extension commit f34f3bd needs to be ported.