prism

Prism is a microformat parser, library, and command line tool for the Ruby programming language.

http://github.com/mwunsch/prism

summary

Prism is a Microformat parser and "html toolkit" backed by the powerful Nokogiri libxml2 parser (http://nokogiri.org). It defines a DSL (a domain-specific language) for parsing POSH formats, and comes included with support for several Microformats. Right now (v0.1.0) it supports:

supported microformats

• rel-tag
• rel-license
• VoteLinks
• XFN
• XOXO
• XMDP
• geo
• adr
• hCard

installation

To get started, just make sure you have Ruby installed on your system and run `gem install prism` (you might need `sudo`).

command line tool

Using the command line tool

prism --hcard http://markwunsch.com > ~/Desktop/mark.vcf

Go ahead and try that: you can add me to your address book. Prism's CLI (command line interface) allows you to convert hcards to vcards (more coming soon, of course).

documentation

Type `prism` to see a general help page. Man pages are in the works.

feedback and issues

I urge you all to check out Prism, run it and see if it parses to your expectations. If not, please open an issue on GitHub (http://github.com/mwunsch/prism/issues).

future plans

Priorities for the next release include:

• smarter handling of ISO8601, Geo, and E.123
• passing all of the Value Class pattern tests.
• Following that, I plan on focusing on getting
  • hCalendar and
  • hAtom support in.

Thanks for checking it out and I encourage contribution!

Thanks, -Mark Wunsch @markwunsch on Twitter http://github.com/mwunsch mwunsch on Freenode irc

see also

• 2010-03-02 uf-discuss: Introducing Prism: Microformat Parser and Library for Ruby