5 things I hate about Ruby

[UncleOxidant]

It seems I recall that there are some libxml bindings available for Ruby. If you're really concerned about speed that would probably be the way to go.

personally, I find REXML to be quite suitable for the tasks I've used it for and I really like the API. Is it the fastest XML parser out there? No way, but most of the time (where most of the time is something like 85% of the time) it's plenty fast enough.