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+require 'rexml/document'
+require 'uri/common'
+
+class SlashdotPlugin < Plugin
+  include REXML
+  def help(plugin, topic="")
+    "slashdot search <string> [<max>=4] => search slashdot for <string>, slashdot [<max>=4] => return up to <max> slashdot headlines (use negative max to return that many headlines, but all on one line.)"
+  end
+  def privmsg(m)
+    if m.params && m.params =~ /^search\s+(.*)\s+(\d+)$/
+      search = $1
+      limit = $2.to_i
+      search_slashdot m, search, limit
+    elsif m.params && m.params =~ /^search\s+(.*)$/
+      search = $1
+      search_slashdot m, search
+    elsif m.params && m.params =~ /^([-\d]+)$/
+      limit = $1.to_i
+      slashdot m, limit
+    else
+      slashdot m
+    end
+  end
+  
+  def search_slashdot(m, search, max=4)
+    begin
+      xml = @bot.httputil.get(URI.parse("http://slashdot.org/search.pl?content_type=rss&query=#{URI.escape(search)}"))
+    rescue URI::InvalidURIError, URI::BadURIError => e
+      m.reply "illegal search string #{search}"
+      return
+    end
+    unless xml
+      m.reply "search for #{search} failed"
+      return
+    end
+    begin
+      doc = Document.new xml
+    rescue REXML::ParseException => e
+      puts e
+      m.reply "couldn't parse output XML: #{e.class}"
+      return
+    end
+    unless doc
+      m.reply "search for #{search} failed"
+      return
+    end
+    max = 8 if max > 8
+    done = 0
+    doc.elements.each("*/item") {|e|
+      desc = e.elements["title"].text
+      desc.gsub!(/(.{150}).*/, '\1..')
+      reply = sprintf("%s | %s", e.elements["link"].text, desc)
+      m.reply reply
+      done += 1
+      break if done >= max
+    }
+  end
+  
+  def slashdot(m, max=4)
+    xml = @bot.httputil.get(URI.parse("http://slashdot.org/slashdot.xml"))
+    unless xml
+      m.reply "slashdot news parse failed"
+      return
+    end
+    doc = Document.new xml
+    unless doc
+      m.reply "slashdot news parse failed (invalid xml)"
+      return
+    end
+    done = 0
+    oneline = false
+    if max < 0
+      max = (0 - max)
+      oneline = true
+    end
+    max = 8 if max > 8
+    matches = Array.new
+    doc.elements.each("*/story") {|e|
+      matches << [ e.elements["title"].text, 
+                   e.elements["author"].text, 
+                   e.elements["time"].text.gsub(/\d{4}-(\d{2})-(\d{2})/, "\\2/\\1").gsub(/:\d\d$/, "") ]
+      done += 1
+      break if done >= max
+    } 
+    if oneline
+      m.reply matches.collect{|mat| mat[0]}.join(" | ")
+    else
+      matches.each {|mat|
+        m.reply sprintf("%36s | %8s | %8s", mat[0][0,36], mat[1][0,8], mat[2])
+      }
+    end
+  end
+end
+plugin = SlashdotPlugin.new
+plugin.register("slashdot")