Re: Regarding whois query in xml format

[Dana Hudes <dhudes@xxxxxxxxx>]

nowhere is it required to provide xml in response to whois.
yes the address registries all have their own format.
There's nothing to specify the syntax of the response to a WHOIS
request. 

A whatever-to-xml translator is interesting idea.
I hope one day to get back to my work on Perl WHOIS modules.
I have No time ( due to no funding) now.

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Rajat wrote:

> 
> Hello all,
> I am in process of finding the location of a given IP
> address. So I made some queries to the whois
> servers(using TCP@43), but whatever response I got is
> in human readable text formate. More over the response
> format of each server is of different form. I compiled
> following servers,
> 
> whois.arin.net
> whois.apnic.net
> whois.ripe.net
> whois.lacnic.net
> 
> I am not able to parse the response and get the
> relevent information.
> 
> Is there any way to get the response in proper xml
> format. So that I can easily parse it. I got one mail
> in a message archive, in that it was stated that if we
> sand whois query in XML format then will get the
> response in XML format only. Other wise simple text
> response will be returned.
> 
> Does any body know that how we can query the whois
> srevr in xml format? And is it depends on servers xml
> compatibility??
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Regards,
> Rajat
> 
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