Brian H.

Just poking around at this possibility. I loaded my iTunes library in, and it parses the but not the value (). Do I need to learn more, or is this a substantial obstacle to dealing with iTunes' XML?

Just poking around at this possibility.  I loaded my iTunes library in, and it parses the   but not the value ().  Do I need to learn more, or is this a substantial obstacle to dealing with iTunes' XML?

parsing-itunes-xml-with-detox

let me take this opportunity to make some self-advertisement for my advanced XML parser tools for Max (namely, 

let me take this opportunity to make some self-advertisement for my advanced XML parser tools for Max (namely, [sadam.rapidXML] and the Java-based [sadam.dom] and [sadam.sax]), which you'd find in my free library:

I think I'm looking to do similar things, but coming from a webpage. I downloaded and got your XML tools installed. I'm a little confused as to how they work.

Let's say I wanted to have Max go to a particular URL, grab (scrape) the web page from there and then start to parse for a list of items, or some other data; Do I use jit.uldl somehow connected to sadam.rapidXML?

I've done programming before, but this area is so very new to me, I'm just trying to get started with a simple example of a patch or something, and then I can at least try to go from there. Is there a tutorial that illustrates this using your extensions? Or a simple patch that I could look at?

I created a small patch that would fetch a webpage and import it into my parser. Unfortunately I have no experience with Web content fetching in Max, actually this is my very first patch using 

, so there might be some bugs out there in the example patch. Nevertheless, it seems to work with my own page:

This only demonstrates how you can import an XHTML into the objects (you can replace 

 with the other two parsers, the mechanism would remain the same). To browse/modify the actual content, please refer to the help files of my objects.

I created a small patch that would fetch a webpage and import it into my parser. Unfortunately I have no experience with Web content fetching in Max, actually this is my very first patch using [jit.uldl], so there might be some bugs out there in the example patch. Nevertheless, it seems to work with my own page:

This only demonstrates how you can import an XHTML into the objects (you can replace [sadam.rapidXML] with the other two parsers, the mechanism would remain the same). To browse/modify the actual content, please refer to the help files of my objects.

I'm psyched that you got back to me so quickly - I will check out the patch and see if I can extrapolate from there for my needs.

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