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<p>"<i>To be extremely specific, I want to mimic the vendor name part of the MITRE Common Platform Enumeration found on page 10 of http://cpe.mitre.org/files/cpe-specification_2.2.pdf
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FWIW: That was how you should have asked the question in the first place.
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Knowing only what 30 seconds of googling has told me about CPE, wouldn't the best way to mimic CPE's behavior be to directly use the [http://nvd.nist.gov/cpe.cfm|Official CPE Database] of names?
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