itunes xml files

[reven]

yeah its a stream writer, but thats cant be the problem, since if i removed the
stream.WriteLine("name: "+name +"; " + tracknumber);
code, only about 12 lines should be written, but once that is removed, no lines are written. and the with the code its only around 48k so its not exactly a huge file.

[reven]

ok i threw in a few extra flushes and found the bug
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE"><dict>
<key>Name</key><string>Recently Played</string>
<key>Playlist ID</key><integer>4113</integer>
<key>Playlist Persistent ID</key><string>B9B76FD9C797EE78</string>
<key>All Items</key><true/>
<key>Smart Info</key>
<data>
AQEAAwAAAAIAAAAZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAA==
</data>
<key>Smart Criteria</key>
<data>
U0xzdAABAAEAAAABAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABcAAAIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABELa4tri2uLa7//////////gAAAAAACTqA
La4tri2uLa4AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=
</data>
</dict>[/QUOTE]
there was no tracks in this, cause it to crash. didnt catch it before, since my god itunes files are huge, cant look at it all.

[KingArgyle]

Yeah, Reven, and from the looks of it, the Itunes XML file is as poorly structured as Beyond TV's Web Services XML files. At least Apple tried to make it sorta structured, and not toss everything into a PropertyBag element followed by a Value element.

Sorry I didn't respond sooner, but been working on my own project most of the afternoon. Anyway, now that you did it the manual method, here is another suggested way.

This site:

http://chimpen.com/things/archives/001191.php

Has an XSLT that will transform an Itunes.xml file into an M3U playlist. Since you already read M3U playlists, you could probably very easily and with little code, transform the Itunes.xml file as input, and pass the M3U output to your current parsing routines.

Taking a look at the XSLT will also give you a good idea of the Power of the Xpath language that you use for SelectSingleNode and SelectNodes methods.

BTW, with what you have been working on, you are already miles ahead of a lot of people out there with interfacing with XML, too many people rely on stuff like JaxB or some other Binding method to manipulate XML in my opinion. I personally like the XML Dom, SAX2, XPath, and specifically XSLT.