The ONIX standard is a somewhat verbose XML format that is rapidly becoming the industry standard for electronic data sharing in the book and publishing industries.
This library provides a slim layer over the format and simplifies both reading and writing ONIX files in your ruby applications.
See files in the examples directory.
More documentation is coming Real Soon Now (tm)
Generally speaking you should probably use the stream reading and writing approach to ensure you application can handle large files.
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The official specs –> www.editeur.org/onix.html