Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-08 Thread srasher
srasher;380807 Wrote: Great! I definitely vote for the approach with divs instead of tables, should make it much easier to create customized style versions! From your initial work and your mention of big experience with XSLT Co. I'll try a bit around with that but won't interfer much on

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-08 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article rfreedman.3lnxxn1231365...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com, rfreedmanrfreedman.3lnxxn1231365...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com wrote: I reworked the xsl stylesheet. It produces the same output as before, but is much more efficient. Note that the forEach construct is very

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-08 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article srasher.3lo1mz1231370...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com, srashersrasher.3lo1mz1231370...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com wrote: *Andy*: Regarding the retrieval script itself I personally would prefer the option to sort the albums in the well-known Artist - Year - Album way

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-08 Thread SilverRS8
adhawkins;263465 Wrote: Hi, In article buck.33x63o1201562702 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com, buckbuck.33x63o1201562702 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com wrote: Is this similar to the project on this thread? http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 It's

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-08 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article silverrs8.3loyqn1231413...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com, SilverRS8silverrs8.3loyqn1231413...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com wrote: Ofcourse I don't mind the development of this new initiative but why use the same name? This is only confusing to users. The thread title

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-08 Thread srasher
adhawkins;381000 Wrote: Hi, In article srasher.3lo1mz1231370101 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com, srashersrasher.3lo1mz1231370101 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com wrote: *Andy*: Regarding the retrieval script itself I personally would prefer the option to sort the

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-07 Thread Andy Hawkins
In article srasher.3lm5tb1231282...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com, srashersrasher.3lm5tb1231282...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com wrote: thanks for the upload! I fetched it and will test/look through it extensively tomorrow. No problem, let me know how you get on. Andy

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-07 Thread rfreedman
I reworked the xsl stylesheet. It produces the same output as before, but is much more efficient. Note that the forEach construct is very expensive, and generally frowned upon. I attached the new stylesheet, as well as some python code to do the transform. I think that you should consider doing

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-07 Thread srasher
rfreedman;380765 Wrote: I reworked the xsl stylesheet. It produces the same output as before, but is much more efficient. Note that the forEach construct is very expensive, and generally frowned upon. I attached the new stylesheet, as well as some python code to do the transform. I

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-06 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article srasher.3lkxdc1231224...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com, srashersrasher.3lkxdc1231224...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com wrote: I am highly interested. In fact, I started to write a Python based app for this two months ago, too. So far only got to reading and sorting out

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-06 Thread rfreedman
adhawkins;379896 Wrote: Hi, In article srasher.3lkxdc1231224602 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com, srashersrasher.3lkxdc1231224602 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com wrote: I am highly interested. In fact, I started to write a Python based app for this two months ago, too.

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-06 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article rfreedman.3lly6b1231272...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com, rfreedmanrfreedman.3lly6b1231272...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com wrote: I'm interested too. While I'm not fluent in Python, I'm sure that I can get by. I do have a lot of XSLT experience, though, so if you can

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-06 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article slrngm7g5d.1df.a...@gently.org.uk, Andy Hawkinsa...@gently.org.uk wrote: I'll get an early alpha version packaged up, and make it available for download for people to try if they're interested. Watch this space. Ok, I've put an early alpha up. It can be downloaded

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-06 Thread srasher
Ok, I've put an early alpha up. It can be downloaded here: http://software.gently.org.uk/slimxmlcat/slimxmlcat-0.01.tar.gz Included is a very simple XSL transformation stylesheet that will produce a very basic list of albums and their cover art. I'd definitely appreciate some help in

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-05 Thread QDon
Hi, How did you make out with your ACC? -- QDon SqueezeBox Duet SC running on QNAP TS-509 QDon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20770 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-05 Thread srasher
adhawkins;263426 Wrote: Hi all, I'm in the process of writing a two stage album catalogue converter. The first stage use the CLI port to retrieve all the albums from the Slimserver, and writes them to an XML file. The ultimate aim is to then use XSLT to 'transform' this list of albums

[slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2008-01-28 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi all, I'm in the process of writing a two stage album catalogue converter. The first stage use the CLI port to retrieve all the albums from the Slimserver, and writes them to an XML file. The ultimate aim is to then use XSLT to 'transform' this list of albums into a nicely formatted catalogue.

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2008-01-28 Thread buck
Is this similar to the project on this thread? http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 His is Album Catalog Creator. (Catalog spelled in the American fashion) -- buck I have come to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I am all out of bubblegum - Rowdy Roddy Piper as John Nada in

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2008-01-28 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], buck[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this similar to the project on this thread? http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 It's similar, yes. However, for one reason and another I prefer my approach: 1. Mine is cross platform 2. Mine talks