Right now the XML Export is not very useful to most people as compared to the Comma Seperated Variable (CSV) output that Emplode currently does (and has done for some time).

However, the usefulness of the XML version is that it should be quite easy to create a 'map' that takes the XML file and produces say a HTML page displayable within your web browser. Or a variant of the CSV file output now or any of a hundred different output formats people would like emplode to support.

This 'map' (Written in a language called XSL by the way) is much easier to produce from XML file than it is from a CSV file or any other sort of file and the map should work the same whether you have a Linux box or a Windows Pc or whatever.

For right now, the easiest way to work with this sort of file directly is to use Excel 2002 which is part of Office XP. You can do some really whizzy stuff in Excel 2002 with XML files that beats the pants off of plain old CSV files.

There is another thread on this BBS where Roger [the guy who wrote the Emplode XML export feature] is hinting at a way that these 'maps' (written by other BBS members) could be packaged with/able to interface with emplode in the future so that you can select to output your playlist in whatever supported formats are available - simply by downloading new maps.

And of course you could write your own maps if you have the time and inclination.

But right now, its ahead of itself but it is a worthwhile feature for going forward.