libxml-ruby 2.9.0 → 3.0.0

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-  Copyright (c) 2008-2013 Charlie Savage and contributors
-  Copyright (c) 2002-2007 Sean Chittenden and contributors
-  Copyright (c) 2001 Wai-Sun "Squidster" Chia
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
-this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in 
-the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to 
-use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies 
-of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do
-so, subject to the following conditions:
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-LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
-OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+  Copyright (c) 2008-2013 Charlie Savage and contributors
+  Copyright (c) 2002-2007 Sean Chittenden and contributors
+  Copyright (c) 2001 Wai-Sun "Squidster" Chia
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
+this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in 
+the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to 
+use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies 
+of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do
+so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR 
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER 
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
 SOFTWARE.

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data/README.rdoc

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-= LibXML Ruby
-
-== Overview
-The libxml gem provides Ruby language bindings for GNOME's Libxml2
-XML toolkit. It is free software, released under the MIT License.
-
-We think libxml-ruby is the best XML library for Ruby because:
-
-* Speed - Its much faster than REXML and Hpricot
-* Features - It provides an amazing number of featues
-* Conformance - It passes all 1800+ tests from the OASIS XML Tests Suite
-
-== Requirements
-libxml-ruby requires Ruby 1.8.4 or higher.  It is dependent on 
-the following libraries to function properly:
-
-* libm      (math routines: very standard)
-* libz      (zlib)
-* libiconv
-* libxml2
-
-If you are running Linux or Unix you'll need a C compiler so the
-extension can be compiled when it is installed.  If you are running
-Windows, then install the Windows specific RubyGem which
-includes an already built extension.
-
-== INSTALLATION
-The easiest way to install libxml-ruby is via Ruby Gems.  To install:
-
-<tt>gem install libxml-ruby</tt>
-
-If you are running Windows, make sure to install the Win32 RubyGem
-which includes prebuilt extensions for Ruby 1.8, 1.9 and 2.0 preview.  These
-extensions are built using MinGW64 and libxml2 version 2.9.3,
-iconv version 1.14 and zlib version 1.2.8.  Note these binaries
-are available in the lib\libs directory.  To use them, put them
-someplace on your path.
-
-The gem also includes a Microsoft VC++ 2012 solution (useful for debugging).
-
-libxml-ruby's source codes lives on Github at https://github.com/xml4r/libxml-ruby.
-
-== Getting Started
-Using libxml is easy. First decide what parser you want to use:
-
-* Generally you'll want to use the LibXML::XML::Parser which provides a tree based API.
-* For larger documents that don't fit into memory, or if you prefer an input based API, use the LibXML::XML::Reader.
-* To parse HTML files use LibXML::XML::HTMLParser.
-* If you are masochistic, then use the LibXML::XML::SaxParser, which provides a callback API.
-
-Once you have chosen a parser, choose a datasource.  Libxml can parse files, strings, URIs
-and IO streams.  For each data source you can specify an LibXML::XML::Encoding, a base uri and
-various parser options.  For more information, refer the LibXML::XML::Parser.document,
-LibXML::XML::Parser.file, LibXML::XML::Parser.io or LibXML:::XML::Parser.string methods (the
-same methods are defined on all four parser classes).
-
-== Advanced Functionality
-Beyond the basics of parsing and processing XML and HTML documents,
-libxml provides a wealth of additional functionality.
-
-Most commonly, you'll want to use its LibXML::XML::XPath support, which makes
-it easy to find data inside a XML document.  Although not as popular,
-LibXML::XML::XPointer provides another API for finding data inside an XML document.
-
-Often times you'll need to validate data before processing it. For example,
-if you accept user generated content submitted over the Web, you'll
-want to verify that it does not contain malicious code such as embedded scripts.
-This can be done using libxml's powerful set of validators:
-
-* DTDs (LibXML::XML::Dtd)
-* Relax Schemas (LibXML::XML::RelaxNG)
-* XML Schema (LibXML::XML::Schema)
-
-Finally, if you'd like to use XSL Transformations to process data,
-then install the libxslt gem which is available at
-https://github.com/xml4r/libxslt-ruby.
-
-== Usage
-For information about using libxml-ruby please refer to its documentation at
-http://xml4r.github.com/libxml-ruby/rdoc/index.html. Some tutorials are also
-available at https://github.com/xml4r/libxml-ruby/wiki.
-
-All libxml classes are in the LibXML::XML module. The easiest
-way to use libxml is to require 'xml'.  This will mixin
-the LibXML module into the global namespace, allowing you to
-write code like this:
-
-  require 'xml'
-  document = XML::Document.new
-
-However, when creating an application or library you plan to
-redistribute, it is best to not add the LibXML module to the global
-namespace, in which case you can either write your code like this:
-
-  require 'libxml'
-  document = LibXML::XML::Document.new
-
-Or you can utilize a namespace for your own work and include LibXML into it.
-For example:
-
-  require 'libxml'
-
-  module MyApplication
-    include LibXML
-
-    class MyClass
-      def some_method
-        document = XML::Document.new
-      end
-    end
-  end
-
-For simplicity's sake, the documentation uses the xml module in its examples.
-
-== Memory Management
-libxml-ruby automatically manages memory associated with the
-underlying libxml2 library. There is however one corner case that
-your code must handle. If a node is imported into a document, but not
-added to the document, a segmentation fault may occur on program termination.
-
-  # Do NOT do this
-  require 'xml'
-  doc1 = XML::Document.string("test1")
-  doc2 = XML::Document.string("test2")
-  node = doc2.import(doc1.root)
-
-If doc2 is freed before the node a segmentation fault will occur since
-the node references the document.  To avoid this, simply make sure to add the
-node to the document:
-
-  # DO this instead
-  doc1 = XML::Document.string("test1")
-  doc2 = XML::Document.string("test2")
-  doc2.root << doc2.import(doc1.root)
-
-Alternatively, you can call node.remove! to disassociate the node from doc2.
-
-== Threading
-libxml-ruby fully supports native, background Ruby threads.  This of course
-only applies to Ruby 1.9.x and higher since earlier versions of Ruby do not
-support native threads.
-
-== Performance
-In addition to being feature rich and conformation, the main reason
-people use libxml-ruby is for performance.  Here are the results 
-of a couple simple benchmarks recently blogged about on the
-Web (you can find them in the benchmark directory of the 
-libxml distribution).
-
-From http://depixelate.com/2008/4/23/ruby-xml-parsing-benchmarks
-
-               user     system      total        real
- libxml    0.032000   0.000000   0.032000 (  0.031000)
- Hpricot   0.640000   0.031000   0.671000 (  0.890000)
- REXML     1.813000   0.047000   1.860000 (  2.031000)
-
-From https://svn.concord.org/svn/projects/trunk/common/ruby/xml_benchmarks/
-
-               user     system      total        real
- libxml    0.641000   0.031000   0.672000 (  0.672000)
- hpricot   5.359000   0.062000   5.421000 (  5.516000)
- rexml    22.859000   0.047000  22.906000 ( 23.203000) 
-
-
-== Documentation
-Documentation is available via rdoc, and is installed automatically with the
-gem.
-
-libxml-ruby's online documentation is generated using Hanna, which is a
-development gem dependency.
-
-Note that older versions of Rdoc, which ship with Ruby 1.8.x, will report
-a number of errors.  To avoid them, install Rdoc 2.1 or higher.  Once you have
-installed the gem, you'll have to disable the version of Rdoc that Ruby 1.8.x
-includes.  An easy way to do that is rename the directory ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc to
-ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc_old.
-
-== Support
-
-If you have any questions about using libxml-ruby, please report them to
-Git Hub at https://github.com/xml4r/libxml-ruby/issues
-
-== License
-See LICENSE for license information.
+= LibXML Ruby
+
+== Overview
+The libxml gem provides Ruby language bindings for GNOME's Libxml2
+XML toolkit. It is free software, released under the MIT License.
+
+We think libxml-ruby is the best XML library for Ruby because:
+
+* Speed - Its much faster than REXML and Hpricot
+* Features - It provides an amazing number of featues
+* Conformance - It passes all 1800+ tests from the OASIS XML Tests Suite
+
+== Requirements
+libxml-ruby requires Ruby 1.8.4 or higher.  It depends on libxml2 to
+function propoerly.  libxml2, in turn, depends on:
+
+* libm      (math routines: very standard)
+* libz      (zlib)
+* libiconv
+
+If you are running Linux or Unix you'll need a C compiler so the
+extension can be compiled when it is installed.  If you are running
+Windows, then install the x64-mingw32 gem or build it yourself using
+Devkit (http://rubyinstaller.org/add-ons/devkit/) or
+msys2 (https://msys2.github.io/).
+
+== INSTALLATION
+The easiest way to install libxml-ruby is via Ruby Gems.  To install:
+
+<tt>gem install libxml-ruby</tt>
+
+If you are running Windows, then install the libxml-ruby-x64-mingw32 gem.
+THe gem inncludes prebuilt extensions for Ruby 2.3.  These
+extensions are built using MinGW64 and libxml2 version 2.9.3,
+iconv version 1.14 and zlib version 1.2.8. Note these binaries
+are available in the lib\libs directory.  To use them, put them
+someplace on your path.
+
+The gem also includes a Microsoft VC++ 2012 solution and XCode 5 project - these
+are very useful for debugging.
+
+libxml-ruby's source codes lives on Github at https://github.com/xml4r/libxml-ruby.
+
+== Getting Started
+Using libxml is easy. First decide what parser you want to use:
+
+* Generally you'll want to use the LibXML::XML::Parser which provides a tree based API.
+* For larger documents that don't fit into memory, or if you prefer an input based API, use the LibXML::XML::Reader.
+* To parse HTML files use LibXML::XML::HTMLParser.
+* If you are masochistic, then use the LibXML::XML::SaxParser, which provides a callback API.
+
+Once you have chosen a parser, choose a datasource.  Libxml can parse files, strings, URIs
+and IO streams.  For each data source you can specify an LibXML::XML::Encoding, a base uri and
+various parser options.  For more information, refer the LibXML::XML::Parser.document,
+LibXML::XML::Parser.file, LibXML::XML::Parser.io or LibXML:::XML::Parser.string methods (the
+same methods are defined on all four parser classes).
+
+== Advanced Functionality
+Beyond the basics of parsing and processing XML and HTML documents,
+libxml provides a wealth of additional functionality.
+
+Most commonly, you'll want to use its LibXML::XML::XPath support, which makes
+it easy to find data inside a XML document.  Although not as popular,
+LibXML::XML::XPointer provides another API for finding data inside an XML document.
+
+Often times you'll need to validate data before processing it. For example,
+if you accept user generated content submitted over the Web, you'll
+want to verify that it does not contain malicious code such as embedded scripts.
+This can be done using libxml's powerful set of validators:
+
+* DTDs (LibXML::XML::Dtd)
+* Relax Schemas (LibXML::XML::RelaxNG)
+* XML Schema (LibXML::XML::Schema)
+
+Finally, if you'd like to use XSL Transformations to process data,
+then install the libxslt gem which is available at
+https://github.com/xml4r/libxslt-ruby.
+
+== Usage
+For information about using libxml-ruby please refer to its documentation at
+http://xml4r.github.com/libxml-ruby/rdoc/index.html. Some tutorials are also
+available at https://github.com/xml4r/libxml-ruby/wiki.
+
+All libxml classes are in the LibXML::XML module. The easiest
+way to use libxml is to require 'xml'.  This will mixin
+the LibXML module into the global namespace, allowing you to
+write code like this:
+
+  require 'xml'
+  document = XML::Document.new
+
+However, when creating an application or library you plan to
+redistribute, it is best to not add the LibXML module to the global
+namespace, in which case you can either write your code like this:
+
+  require 'libxml'
+  document = LibXML::XML::Document.new
+
+Or you can utilize a namespace for your own work and include LibXML into it.
+For example:
+
+  require 'libxml'
+
+  module MyApplication
+    include LibXML
+
+    class MyClass
+      def some_method
+        document = XML::Document.new
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
+For simplicity's sake, the documentation uses the xml module in its examples.
+
+== Threading
+libxml-ruby fully supports native, background Ruby threads.  This of course
+only applies to Ruby 1.9.x and higher since earlier versions of Ruby do not
+support native threads.
+
+== Performance
+In addition to being feature rich and conformation, the main reason
+people use libxml-ruby is for performance.  Here are the results 
+of a couple simple benchmarks recently blogged about on the
+Web (you can find them in the benchmark directory of the 
+libxml distribution).
+
+From http://depixelate.com/2008/4/23/ruby-xml-parsing-benchmarks
+
+               user     system      total        real
+ libxml    0.032000   0.000000   0.032000 (  0.031000)
+ Hpricot   0.640000   0.031000   0.671000 (  0.890000)
+ REXML     1.813000   0.047000   1.860000 (  2.031000)
+
+From https://svn.concord.org/svn/projects/trunk/common/ruby/xml_benchmarks/
+
+               user     system      total        real
+ libxml    0.641000   0.031000   0.672000 (  0.672000)
+ hpricot   5.359000   0.062000   5.421000 (  5.516000)
+ rexml    22.859000   0.047000  22.906000 ( 23.203000) 
+
+
+== Documentation
+Documentation is available via rdoc, and is installed automatically with the
+gem.
+
+libxml-ruby's online documentation is generated using Hanna, which is a
+development gem dependency.
+
+Note that older versions of Rdoc, which ship with Ruby 1.8.x, will report
+a number of errors.  To avoid them, install Rdoc 2.1 or higher.  Once you have
+installed the gem, you'll have to disable the version of Rdoc that Ruby 1.8.x
+includes.  An easy way to do that is rename the directory ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc to
+ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc_old.
+
+== Support
+
+If you have any questions about using libxml-ruby, please report them to
+Git Hub at https://github.com/xml4r/libxml-ruby/issues
+
+== Memory Management
+libxml-ruby automatically manages memory associated with the
+underlying libxml2 library.  The bindings create a one-to-one mapping between
+ruby objects and libxml documents and libxml parent nodes (ie, nodes that do not
+have a parent and do not belong to a document). In these cases,
+the bindings manage the memory.  They do this by installing a free
+function and storing a back pointer to the Ruby object from the xmlnode
+using the _private member on libxml structures.  When the Ruby object
+goes out of scope, the underlying libxml structure is freed.  Libxml
+itself then frees all child node (recursively).
+
+For all other nodes (the vast majority), the bindings create temporary
+Ruby objects that get freed once they go out of scope. Thus there can be
+more than one ruby object pointing to the same xml node. To mostly hide
+this from programmers on the ruby side, the #eql? and #== methods are
+overriden to check if two ruby objects wrap the same xmlnode.  If they do,
+then the methods return true.  During the mark phase, each of these temporary
+objects marks its owning document, thereby keeping the Ruby document object
+alive and thus the xmldoc tree.
+
+In the sweep phase of the garbage collector, or when a program ends,
+there is no order to how Ruby objects are freed. In fact, the ruby document
+object is almost always freed before any ruby objects that wrap child nodes.
+However, this is ok because those ruby objects do not have a free function
+and are no longer in scope (since if they were the document would not be freed).
+
+== License
+See LICENSE for license information.