From: Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Date: 2002-04-12T14:32:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby/Google

On Fri 12 Apr 2002 at 13:48:23 +0900, james@rubyxml.com wrote:

> 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.

Yes, I noticed that myself. One would hope that the results would be
returned as plain text, but maybe that was deemed too expensive on the
server side.

> I hacked around that using a gsub on the result strings, but I'm
> wondering if the markup is a permanent feature.

No idea. It will be interesting to see how the Web API develops
further.

Ian
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Ian Macdonald               | "It's not just a computer -- it's your
ian@caliban.org             | ass."   -- Cal Keegan 
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