Parse Remote API Output (GPL)????

Hey,

I'm hoping someone can shed some light on how to "consistently" parse the output of a remote api call.

*** I currently am working on a PHP frontend to webmin/virtualmin which includes a limited feature set and customized interface for my customers. ***

As I was reading the documentation on this, it appears that all output is in plain text.

However, there appears to be no easy way to actually parse content into a name => value pair or the like.

Example:

http://localhost:10000/virtual-server/remote.cgi?program=list-domains

This command responds with something like:

Domain Username Description

mydomain.com myuser my description

Exit status: 0

Now, if all I wanted to do was simply output the results directly to screen this wouldn't be an issue.

However, I would like to parse the content of this output into a nicely formatted HTML table for instance.

There appears to be no common delimiter when parsing the output which makes this from what I've tried thus far either very difficult or nearly impossible.

*** Honestly, if I had designed this API, I would have implemented some level of standard output such as XML, JSON, or a combination of the two so that parsing the output would be more simple, and consistent amongst the commands. ***

Forgive me if I'm missing something here, and no offense intended for either Jamie or Joe on this, just giving my thoughts on the topic.

Hope someone can shed some light on an easy way to deal with this.

-- Best Regards, Peter