xml_stream_parser

= xml_stream_parser

this code was developed by trampoline systems [ http://trampolinesystems.com ] as part of its sonar platform and released under a BSD licence for community use

http://www.github.com/mccraigmccraig/xml_stream_parser

== DESCRIPTION:

a basic library for pull parsing of large xml documents

== FEATURES:

• pull parsing of large xml documents with no dom construction
• provides simple operations for constructing higher level parsers

== PROBLEMS:

• it's very basic
• no validation

== SYNOPSIS:

require 'rubygems' require 'xml_stream_parser'

parse xml stream data, possibly never ending, and do things with it

doc = <<-EOF likes cheese likes music likes alice EOF

can be parsed with

people = {} XmlStreamParser.new.parse_dsl(doc) do element "people" do |name,attrs| elements "person" do |name, attrs| people[attrs["name"]] = text end end end

== REQUIREMENTS:

Ruby or JRuby

== INSTALL:

sudo gem sources -a http://gems.github.com sudo gem install mccraigmccraig-xml_stream_parser

== LICENSE:

(The BSD License)

Copyright (c) 2009, Trampoline Systems Ltd, http://trampolinesystems.com/ All rights reserved.

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