Cacofonix

Cacofonix helps you work with ONIX data in your Ruby applications. ONIX is a set of (XML-based) standards for published products. Cacofonix focuses on the ONIX for Books standard, and currently supports ONIX 2.1 (all revisions).

With Cacofonix, you can:

• Efficiently read ONIX files
• Map records in ONIX files to Ruby objects
• Write ONIX files

Cacofonix is an updated, maintained fork of James Healy's original onix gem, also incorporating Joseph Pearson's major refactorings and expanded support for the standard.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "cacofonix"

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install cacofonix

See the files in the examples/ directory to get started quickly.

For more detail, view the comments in the following classes:

• Cacofonix::Reader - For reading ONIX files
• Cacofonix::Writer - For writing ONIX files
• Cacofonix::Normaliser - For normalising ONIX files before reading (Fixes encoding issues, etc.)
• Cacofonix::Lists - For building hashes of code lists from the ONIX spec

Cacofonix::Reader only handles the reference tag versions of ONIX 2.1. Use Cacofonix::Normaliser to convert any short tag files to reference tags.

Cacofonix::Writer only generates reference tag ONIX files.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the Cacofonix codebase, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.