How to convert TXT to XML

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How to convert TXT to XML

Posted a thread recently on alike topic tied up with re-importing playlists back to iTunes (version 10.6.3). Not knowing much about formats for saving them properly I clicked Save just with the default txt format being prompted. Changing the extension to xml resulted in nothing, as these two files have different structure, so I need to convert txt to xml in some other way. I heard it's possible when writing Perl script or something. I would like to know exact steps to achieve this.

Hardware and OS X as indicated at the bottom.

iTunes 10.6.3

Thank you very much for any your input.

Mac OS X (10.7.5), MacBook Pro 15.4 mid-2012

Posted on Oct 1, 2015 10:05 AM

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twtwtw

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Oct 1, 2015 2:58 PM in response to scrutinizer82

Well, obviously this is doable. You might google around and see if someone has written a script for it already. The problem is that the iTunes XML is fairly complex, so extracting the data from the text file and rebuilding it as XML is a non-trivial task. You would (frankly) find it quicker and easier to rebuild the playlists by hand in iTunes than to write and test such a script.

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