Re: iTunes Music Store XML

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: iTunes Music Store XML
Date: 12:48 on 21 Apr 2004

> but what I can't figure out is why, oh why, they had to 
> use markup like the following...

>    <key>kind</key><string>song</string>

Because their XML is based on their Preferences database format
(*.plist) which is based on the Defaults database from NeXTStep.

Historical reasons which also makes it really convenient to futz
with from Cocoa applications on OS X.

iTunes Music Store XML Thomas R. Sibley 02:26 on 21 Apr 2004
- Re: iTunes Music Store XML Daniel Pittman 09:08 on 21 Apr 2004
  - Darrell Fuhriman 17:02 on 21 Apr 2004
    - too deep to show
- Geoff Richards 09:39 on 21 Apr 2004
- peter (Peter da Silva) 12:48 on 21 Apr 2004
- Yoz Grahame 16:15 on 21 Apr 2004

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