ruby/rexml

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REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby

Stars: 182
Forks: 99
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 18
Avg merge: 2d 23h
Merged PRs (30d): 8

Dominant language: Ruby
License: BSD-2-Clause
Last GitHub push: Sep 14, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
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18 issues indexed so far

Weird return type of XPath.match and XPath.first Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

ruby/rexml#353 · Opened Jul 29, 2026
XPath underscored function name is wrongly accepted Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

ruby/rexml#352 · Opened Jul 18, 2026
XPath function name typo silently ignored Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

ruby/rexml#351 · Opened Jul 18, 2026
XPath silently ignores erroneous evaluation where a nodeset is required Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

ruby/rexml#350 · Opened Jul 18, 2026
Loose and strict XPath variables/namespaces Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/rexml#349 · Opened Jul 18, 2026
RELAX NG Validator fails to handle XML documents with XML declaration Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/rexml#241 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 7, 2025
REXML::Formatters::Transitive not found. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/rexml#228 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 7, 2025
Prepare continuous benchmarking Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

ruby/rexml#138 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 5, 2024
Stack level too deep at xmldecl encoding method Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/rexml#84 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 30, 2021
REXML changes quote type Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

ruby/rexml#74 · 5 comments · Opened May 12, 2021
Links to task pages are broken Open

documentation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/rexml#73 · 3 comments · Opened May 9, 2021
Problem with context raw? Open

question

ruby/rexml#43 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 2, 2021
How to not escape ampersand in the attribute of an element? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/rexml#35 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 8, 2020
check these possible issues reported by rubocop and by rubocop/require_tools Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/rexml#34 · Opened May 12, 2020
Improve the performance using the hints by rubocop-performance and fasterer Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

ruby/rexml#33 · 2 comments · Opened May 12, 2020
REXML::Validation::RelaxNG Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ruby/rexml#32 · 2 comments · Opened May 12, 2020
\r is converted into \n Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ruby/rexml#31 · Opened May 12, 2020
Add useful API to copy text Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/rexml#11 · Opened Dec 20, 2018

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