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Re: Getting started with XML?
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Re: Getting started with XML?


  • Subject: Re: Getting started with XML?
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:17:45 -0700

On Feb 10, 2007, at 12:38 PM, Steven D. Majewski wrote:

Anyway, I was going about it all wrong. Someone had asked on a list what music we listen to while running, so I exported my running playlist. When I opened it, I saw that it was an XML file (although I subsequently discovered that it's actually a plist format), so I wanted to extract song titles and performers from the list.

'Export Library ' exports the entire library as xml plist, but If you have a playlist selected,
'Export' gives you the option of exporting as a text file. That might have been the quickest route.

I had totally missed that; I coud have then imported it into an AppleWorks spreadsheet, deleted the columns I didn't need, and exported it as a text file.


After all the help I got here, I then remembered that iTunes is scriptable. It took me about five to fifteen minutes to write a script that got the information directly from iTunes.

But your solution was also pretty good.

And actually along with the text-file method , one of the two the best ways for my needs.


Since OSX has xsltproc built in,

I have absolutely no idea what that is.

-- Michelle

--
I can't be in my second childhood;
I haven't finished the first one yet.

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