nokogiri vs hpricot?

Question

Which one would you choose? My important attributes are (not in order)

1. Support & Future enhancements
2. Community & general knowledge base (on the Internet)
3. Comprehensive (i.e proven to parse a wide range of *.*ml pages)
4. Performance
5. Memory Footprint (runtime, not the code-base)

Answer 1

Pick nokogiri, for at least points 1-4, I don't know about (5).

It is way more popular than hpricot. See ruby-toolbox, among others.

Answer 2

Only pick hpricot if you don't have or can't install libxml on the computer you're using. If this is not the case then choose nokogiri, it's better in the 5 mentioned attributes than hpricot.