Re: Regarding whois query in xml format

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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