Resources¶

Ruby HTTP clients¶

Ruby-XCAP-Client will use one of the following Ruby HTTP clients:

• httpclient -- Gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP).
• rfuzz -- The Web Destroyer (and client library).
• simplehttp -- A simplified wrapper around Net::Http.
  • It doesn't support Digest authentication and PUT method.

Ruby XML parser¶

Ruby-XCAP-Client will use one of the following RubyXML parsers:

• Nokogiri -- HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser. Ability to search documents via XPath or CSS3 selectors.
  • Documentation
  • Namespaces
• LibXML-Ruby -- Ruby language bindings for the GNOME Libxml2 XML toolkit.
  • It allows XML namespaces: http://libxml.rubyforge.org/rdoc/classes/LibXML/XML/Namespaces.html
  • An HPricot-style interface to LibXml-Ruby
• hpricot -- Flexible HTML parser, based on HTree and jQuery, but with the scanner recoded in C.
  • No namespaces support.
• XmlSimple -- Easy API to read and write XML. It is a Ruby translation of Perl module XML::Simple.
  • It doesn't support XML namespaces and is very slow (pure Ruby).

Articles¶

• Nokogiri vs LibXML vs Hpricot vs REXML
• Comparission of PHP and Ruby XML parsers

Documentation¶

• RFC 2616 -- Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1
• XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0 (Spanish) -- W3C Recommendation 16 November 1999 (Spanish)
• Introducción a XPath (Spanish)
• OMA-WP-XDM_1_1_Implementation_Guidelines-20081209-A
• GSMA RCS Project