[Playlist] Re: xspf over json

[Lucas Gonze]

Wow.

Really really nice.

What can we do to supply the fixtures and assertions about how the 
missing subnodes should be parsed?

And how can we take advantage of the tricks in the YUI project for 
getting an XML DOM out of documents served with the wrong content type?

-Lucas

Chris Anderson wrote:
> I've cleaned up my Javascript XSPF parser for release. You can run the
> unit specs here:
> 
> http://jchris.mfdz.com/jspf/xspf_parser_spec.html
> 
> And the code is available from my public subversion repository here:
> 
> http://svn.rtra.in/public/plugins/jspf/
> 
> The license is LGPL, and the specs are passing in Safari, Camino, and
> Firefox. The unit spec document format makes for extremely easy to add
> requirements. Just add a fixture file and write some assertions. There
> are big swaths of the XSPF standard this parser does not yet attempt
> to handle. The challenge is to make handle all valid XSPF documents,
> without sacrificing readability for the core music metadata.
> 
> As far as moving the parser forward, I'd be happy to do the Javascript
> gruntwork if people can supply me with fixtures and assertions about
> how some of the missing subnodes should be parsed.
> 
> If you check out the files work from your local machine, be forwarned
> that some browsers (cough... Camino) don't provide an XML DOM object
> for file:// requests. Also, XSPF served under non-xml mime types is
> not parsable by this library - although I think there may be some
> tricks in the YUI project for getting an XML DOM out of documents
> served with the wrong content type.
> 
> This is very much a work in progress, so I am eager for all input. The
> JSPF defined by this parser is in production use on Grabb.it now.
> Those of you interested in checking Grabb.it out are welcome to. We're
> running the new application on http://preview.grabb.it. You can see
> some of our XSPF here:
> 
> http://preview.grabb.it/stars.xspf
> 
> or look at the same playlist in JSPF if you like:
> 
> http://preview.grabb.it/stars.jspf
> 
> Chris
>