I just pushed up a branch called 'metadata'. The changes modernize the project's layout and metadata files. If looks good, please apply to master as soon as possible, so others can fork from there.

There are tweaks still to be made to finish this off. For instance, a rake task should be made that updates the ext/libxml/ruby_xml_version.h file based on what is in the VERSION file. Also the publish task needs to be redone now that we are using GitHub. Be sure to check out Grancher to copy the web/ directory to the gh-pages branch (I can do this if you need me too). Please! Do not edit the gh-pages branch by hand (those git people are crazy ;-).