XML, anyone?

03.22.2004

I want to export my iTunes library into a web page. Problem: I don't have my XML book w/ me in Bolivia & can't figure out how to build a web page w/ that database. This is just a tinkering thing for me, nothing urgent. And nothing fancy, just listing artist, track, album. It's a huge database; the XML file's 4.7 MB. If anyone knows how to do this, let me know.

Posted by Miguel at 06:16 PM

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And if anyone knows how to export tracks from Windows Media Player into iTunes I would appreciate it too. Thx. N.

Posted by: Nenad at March 23, 2004 12:53 AM

Look at

http://www.xmldatabases.org/WK/blog/1086_Cleaning_up_iTunes_plist_XML.item

and possibly

http://www.amber.org/~petrilli/archive/2004/01/25/stupid_xml_tricks_at_apple.html

to get started. Personally I'd write a perl script with a couple of regexes to munge it once, but the above uses XSLT to do much the same thing. From reading the above links it would seem that dynamically generating the web page is probably contra-indicated.

Posted by: Francis at March 23, 2004 05:08 AM