The Libxml-Ruby project provides Ruby language bindings for the GNOME Libxml2 XML toolkit. It is free software, released under the MIT License. Libxml-ruby's primary advantage over REXML is performance - if speed is your need, these are good libraries to consider, as demonstrated by the informal benchmark below.
Required Ruby Version
>= 1.8.6
Authors
Ross Bamform, Wai-Sun Chia, Sean Chittenden, Dan Janwoski, Anurag Priyam, Charlie Savage
Versions
- 6.0.0 April 08, 2026 x64-mingw-ucrt (14.3 MB)
- 6.0.0 April 08, 2026 (271 KB)
- 5.0.6 April 04, 2026 x64-mingw-ucrt (14.4 MB)
- 5.0.6 April 04, 2026 (356 KB)
- 5.0.5 July 31, 2025 (356 KB)
- 2.2.2 August 30, 2011 x86-mingw32 (2.73 MB)