On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:55:09 +0900, mpaniagua wrote:

> I have some MapInfo Tables ( tab,map,id and ind files). Does anyone
> have a library or something so I could open them from ruby? or
> somenthig to convert the tables to xml files?
> 
> Thanks!!!
> 
> 
> Marcelo Paniagua
> 
> 

One option would be to use the GDAL <http://www.gdal.org/> ogr2ogr
program to convert the data to and XML format (KML, GML), thusly:

$ ogr2ogr -f GML x.gml foo.tab

$ ogr2ogr -f KML x.kml foo.tab

Then process the XML in your ruby application.

-jh