Better way to this ?? Query database to xml

[Valery Reznic]

--- On Sun, 4/5/09, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> wrote:

> From: Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com>
> Subject: Better way to this ?? Query database to xml
> To: "General discussion about the RPM package manager" <rpm-list at lists.rpm.org>
> Date: Sunday, April 5, 2009, 1:40 PM
> The ugly string
> 
> rpm -qa --qf '<package name="%{name}">\n  \
> <epoch>%{epoch}</epoch>\n  \
> <version>%{version}</version>\n  \
> <release>%{release}</release>\n  \
> <arch>%{arch}</arch>  \
> <summary>%{summary}</summary>\n 
> <vendor>%{vendor}</vendor>\n</package>\n'
> 
> The issue - it can produce malformed xml because vendor
> string can and does sometimes contain < and >
> 
> I'm thinking there probably is a better to do it with
> python straight from the database? Maybe even something
> already exists for this?
There is a --xml flag for rpm.

Or another option something like this (to make string even more ugly :)

rpm -qa --qf '@MY_SMALL at package name="%{name}"@MY_BIG@\n ...' |
sed -e 's/</&lt;/g' -e 's/>/&gt;g' -e 's/@MY_SMALL@/</g' -e 's/@MY_BIG@/>/g'

Valery.


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