* Changes to the encoding mechanism. If iconv is found, it is used first

for encoding changes.  This should be the case on all 1.8 installations.
  When it isn't found (<1.6), the native REXML encoding mechanism is used.
  This cleaned out some files, and tightened up the code a bit; and iconv
  should be faster than the pure Ruby code.
* Changed deprecated assert_not_nil to assert throughout the tests.
* Parse exceptions are a little more verbose, and extend RuntimeError.
* Bug fixes to XPathParser
* The Light API is still shifting, like the sands of the desert.
* Fixed a new Ruby 1.8.0 warning, added some speed optimizations, and
  tightened error reporting in the base parser


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@4737 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

lib/rexml/output.rb

@@ -8,10 +8,6 @@ module REXML
 			@output = real_IO
 			self.encoding = encd
 
-			eval <<-EOL
-				alias :encode :to_#{encoding.tr('-', '_').downcase}
-				alias :decode :from_#{encoding.tr('-', '_').downcase}
-			EOL
 			@to_utf = encd == UTF_8 ? false : true
 		end