Nokogiri: A Faster, Better HTML and XML Parser for Ruby (than Hp...

Courtesy Ruby Inside  Fri, 10/31/2008 - 11:50

html-xml.pngYesterday, Aaron Patterson (@tenderlove ) and Mike Dalessio released Nokogiri (Github repository ), a new HTML and XML parser for Ruby.

It "parses and searches XML/HTML faster than Hpricot" (Hpricot being the current de facto Ruby HTML parser) and boasts XPath support, CSS3 selector support (a big deal, because CSS3 selectors are mega powerful) and the ability to be used as a "drop in" replacement for Hpricot.

On an Hpricot vs Nokogiri benchmark ...

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