Introduction

NQXML is a pure Ruby implementation of a non-validating XML processor. It includes an XML tokenizer, a SAX-style streaming XML parser, a DOM-style tree XML Parser, and an XML writer. ``NQ'' stands for ``Not Quite''. Please read the Limitations section of the README file.

Ruby 1.8 now ships with REXML, an excellent XML parser for Ruby by Sean Russell. It includes XPath support. You should probably use that instead of NQXML.

Ruby is an object-oriented scripting language by Yukihiro Matsumoto. Visit the official Ruby Web site for more information.

The XML specification lives on The World Wide Web Consortium's Web site.

NQXML is developed and maintained by Jim Menard, jimm@io.com. The official Web page of NQXML is http://nqxml.sourceforge.net, where the latest release may be found.

Documentation

See the User's Manual for a summary of recent changes and some examples of how to use NQXML. This on-line HTML version includes links to all of the example code that comes with NQXML.

The RDoc source code documentation was generated using Dave Thomas's RDoc.

Download

Download the latest version (1.1.3p1) from SourceForge. The download contains the Ruby code, an install script, and the documentation.

Bugs

This list does not include the limitations listed above.

There are no known bugs in 1.1.3p1.

Copying

NQXML is copyrighted free software by Jim Menard and is released under the same license as Ruby.

Warranty

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.