From: JamesBritt <james@...>
Date: 2001-09-11T12:19:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21054] Question about RAA listings

I'm putting together a web site devoted to Ruby and XML, and plan to include
a listing of available Ruby packages for processing XML.  Most of the
information would likely come from the RAA, but I would like to include
details that currently aren't part of the RAA listings.

In particular I want to list dependencies, and an explicit notice of
whether or not any native-code libraries or compilation is required.

Two questions: Does anyone know of an existing XML syntax for
describing software (e.g. author, OS, version, dependencies, ...),
and would it be possible to have the RAA listings include a few 
more details in the main listing?

Thanks,

James Britt