From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-09-11T18:43:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21060] Re: Question about RAA listings

JamesBritt wrote:
> 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?

You can access full informations of all RAA entries through XML-RPC or SOAP.
See SOAP4R's "sample/RAA" or xmlrpc4r's "samples/raa" directory for more informations. 

For example, to get a hash describing all informations of the RAA entry "XML-RPC" you'd
write the following:

  require "raa"   # samples/raa/raa.rb

  raa  = RAA.new("www.ruby-lang.org", "/~nahi/xmlrpc/raa/") 
  info = raa.getInfoFromName( "XML-RPC" )
  p info["product"]["version"] # => 1.7.2


Regards,

  Michael

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