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I was asked recently by a friend about scraping data off websites, in particular the wowarmory. WOWArmory is a searchable database of characters, items, guilds and dungeons for the MMO World of Warcraft.

What makes this site unique is that only XML is returned for any query performed. For example, the following search returns an XML document containing as list of all the characters in a particular guild:

To display code snippets on codemuch, we have been using the CodeFilter filter module from drupal.org. It's a nice little module that allows the use of <code> tags in content without having to worry about formatting.