How to wrap RPM output in XML?

[goBoating]

man rpm says that I can use the --queryformat with the :xml arg to wrap the output of rpm in XML. I cannot find an example of the syntax.

Getting formats is pretty straight forward:

>rpm -qa -qf "%{NAME}\n"

But, how do I use the 'qf' functionality to tell it to wrap the output in XML, as it says it can?

Thanks

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[Annihilannic]

$ rpm  -qa --queryformat "%{NAME:xml}\n"
        <string>tzdata</string>
        <string>xkeyboard-config</string>
        <string>gnome-backgrounds</string>
        <string>glib2</string>
        <string>libusb</string>
        <string>libpng</string>
        ...

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[goBoating]

Yep. That's it. Thanks a ton.

I also found that you can wrap the full output of rpm like:

$ rpm -q -xml httpd

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