From: james@...
Date: 2002-04-12T13:48:23+09:00
Subject: RE: [ANN] Ruby/Google

> I encourage people to try it out and let me know what they think.

Ian,

I gave it the search example a whirl, and it works fine.  I changed
search.rb code to emit the results as XML, but it seems Google is returning
data with embedded markup.  Some of it is just distracting, such as
<b>search</b> <b>word</b>, but unclosed 'br' elements break the XML.

I hacked around that using a gsub on the result strings, but I'm wondering
if the markup is a permanent feature.  If it is, it may be a good idea to
ensure that it can drop into XML docs.  I can imagine people wanting to
take the search results and wrap some XML around it before passing it on to
some other application.

Thanks,

James

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> Ian
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> ian@caliban.org             | least expect generally happens. -- Bengamin
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