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> But then, here's my question... Why in god's name would you care > how elegant the XML structure iTunes uses is? It's not really > meant to be parsed by humans, especially humans who don't work at > Apple, and the computer couldn't care less. Even a programmer is > going to use a higher-level API. I edit raw XML files all the time. In fact I edit *this* DTD all the time. Anyone who thinks this is particularly masochistic is some kind of Java-loving pussy who wouldn't recognise Real Programming if it hit them at 9.8 meters per second. You haven't lived until you've had to decode files in which the tags were in EBCDIC but the content was in ASCII and all the field-lengths were nibble-coded. But if you really hate it, you can use plutil to convert it to the old pre-XML format. It works just as well either way. Go now, and sin no more, or I'll make you parse Postscript transcoded into ASN.1.There's stuff above here
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