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Oga is an XML/HTML parser written in Ruby. Oga aims to provide an easy to use Oga is an XML/HTML parser written in Ruby. Oga aims to provide an easy to use
and high performance API for all your XML/HTML parsing needs. Oga requires and high performance API for all your XML/HTML parsing needs. Oga requires
nothing other than Ruby, it does not depend on libxml and the likes. nothing other than Ruby, it does not depend on libxml or other system libraries.
To achieve high performance Oga uses a C or Java extension depending on your Oga uses a small native extension (C for MRI/Rubinius, Java for JRuby) to
Ruby platform. Pure Ruby is sadly not fast enough to process large amounts of speed up the process of lexing XML into tokens. Initial prototypes used a pure
text in reasonable time. Ruby setup but this proved to be too slow when consuming large input sizes.
From [Wikipedia][oga-wikipedia]: From [Wikipedia][oga-wikipedia]:
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* Support for parsing XML and HTML(5) * Support for parsing XML and HTML(5)
* DOM parsing * DOM parsing
* Stream/pull parsing * Stream/pull parsing
* High performance and low memory usage (depending on the parsing API) * Low memory footprint
* High performance, if something doesn't perform well enough it's a bug
* Support for XPath 1.0 * Support for XPath 1.0
* CSS selectors support (planned)
## Requirements ## Requirements