[PLUG] Need XML editor

Carlos Konstanski ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com
Fri Dec 4 05:41:59 UTC 2009


On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 21:37:22 -0800
> From: John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
> Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> To: PLUG <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> Subject: [PLUG] Need XML editor
> 
> In Rhythmbox on my desktop I have a playlist of over 50 classical music stations
> around the world. I wish to use the same list with Rhythmbox on my Fedora 11
> laptop.
>
> There exists a rhythmboxdb.xml file in ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/, but it
> contains every song that you have ever played, including local mp3 files. At
> the very end it has the list of radio stations with the header "iradio" at the
> start of each entry.
>
> I need to delete everything except the "iradio" entries and save the file as a
> new XML file. I can open the file in OOo Writer, but Writer can't figure out
> how to save it as an XML file. Ditto for Gedit.
>
> Is there a simple XML editor that I can use for this task? Alternatively, is
> there a different music player that can import this playlist?

Emacs and vim are both excellent choices.

Carlos



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