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On 21/04/2004 at 09:02 -0700, Darrell Fuhriman wrote: >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. Except where your language doesn't have a plist-parsing API, so you have to hack together the right sort of SAX parser yourself. (Just running a big plist through a DOM parser then rearranging it is a really shit idea. Parsing the XML (slowly) with regular expressions is an even worse one.) I suppose that makes the language and its extensions hateful, too. I'm wary of going (back) there though. Oh, and no, I don't work at Apple. I'd still quite like to be able to parse the iTunes Music Library.xml than the binary format iTunes 4 Music Library file. Same for the iPhoto library. -- :: paul :: historic light coneThere's stuff above here
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