Nokogiri Nokogiri (鋸) makes it easy and painless to work with XML and HTML from Ruby. It provides a sensible, easy-to-understand API for reading, writing, modifying, and querying documents. It is fast and standards-compliant by relying on native parsers like libxml2, libgumbo, and xerces. Guiding Principles Some guiding principles Nokogiri tries to follow: be secure-by-default by treating all docu