libxml is entirely defined within the XML module. First, I hope you asked this same question to the developers of xmlparser. Second, if you want help you are going to have to get your hands a bit dirtier and provide some useful information about the state of module definitions as well as a gdb stack trace from the segv.
Dan On Oct 18, 2007, at 17:21, John Prince wrote: > I was writing some code where I parse some files with libxml and > some with XMLParser. After some effort, I finally realized that > there is in incompatibility with the two libraries: > > require 'xmlparser' > xml_string = "<x><y></y></x>" > XMLParser.new.parse(xml_string) > > -------# -> No errors > > require 'xmlparser' > require 'xml/libxml' > xml_string = "<x><y></y></x>" > XMLParser.new.parse(xml_string) > > > -------# -> test_sanity.rb:6:in `parse': wrong number of arguments > (1 for 0) (ArgumentError) > from test_sanity.rb:6 > > Perhaps the XML::Parser#parse method is clobbering XMLParser's method? > > If you try to work around this by redefining the parse method in > XMLParser: > require 'xmlparser' > > class XMLParser > alias_method :diff_name, :parse > end > > require 'xml/libxml' > > xml_string = "<x><y></y></x>" > XMLParser.new.diff_name(xml_string) > > -------# -> test_sanity.rb:10: [BUG] Segmentation fault > ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i486-linux] > > Aborted (core dumped) > > Since these are both very useful xml parsing libraries, it would be > nice if both could be used in the same program... > > Does anyone know of any work around in the meantime? > > John Prince > UT Austin > _______________________________________________ > libxml-devel mailing list > libxml-devel@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/libxml-devel _______________________________________________ libxml-devel mailing list libxml-devel@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/libxml-devel
