XML Based WHOIS

[Jim McAtee]

This is really for another application, but lets say I needed to
programmatically find the country or email address of a given domain
registrant.  How could I retrieve this?

Is there a means of getting WHOIS info in XML or some common data format?
Right now I use a WHOIS proxy server and it just returns registrant info in
the text format that the particular registrar decides to use.

Thanks,
Jim