From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-06-23T11:26:37+09:00
Subject: Re: xml newbie

On 6/22/07, Colin Summers <bladenut@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, so I am scraping the FAA site and keeping track of some airplanes.
>
> A lot of the time I get a tail number and I have it already, so I am
> going to store the important information in a file that is
> {tailnumber}.xml
>
> That way I can add some of my own information (email address of owner,
> airport last sighted).
>
> I've never written any xml. But apparently there are gems I could add
> to my Ruby installation which would let me write it.
>
> Suggestions for where to start?

You'll want to take a look at HPricot[0] and/or XML Builder[1]

[0] http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/
[1] http://rubyforge.org/projects/builder