Italian Bibliocatalog

[fulvio53s03]

Dear Friends,
I found on the web an .xml file of the following kind:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
<catalog>
<book>
<number>1</number>
<author>ANNE RICE</author>
<title>INTERVISTA COL VAMPIRO</title>
<original-title>The Sands Of Mars</original-title>
<year>1951</year>
<pages>171</pages>
<plot>A San Francisco alle soglie del 2000 il giornalista Mallory.</plot>
<cover>/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEAlgCWAAD//gA7Q3JlYXRvcjogUG9seVZpZXeuIFZlcnNpb24gMy45MiBi
eSBQb2x5Ynl0ZXMNClF1YWxpdHk6IDc1/9sAQwAIBgYHBgUIBwcHCQkICgwUDQwLCwwZEhMPFB0a9KKKKwnuWj//2Q==</cover>
</book>
</catalog>

it refers to a collection of books and the <book> is recursive. Note that the <cover> contains an image coded in base64.
Opening with a text editor I saw that amc.xml catalog has a structure very similar to the one showed but.... I'm a newbye and I'm not able to transform it.

Do you know if it is possible to use this catalog with AMC (changing the fields name, obviously)?
many thank to everyone.

[bad4u]

This format can be processed with AMCs' integrated XML parser, but you need to write a script for this.

Please give a link to the XML file / website. Maybe it's possible to adapt the amazon books script when it has been finished, as it uses similar format.

[fulvio53s03]

Thanks for the quick response.
The XML file comes from p2p (forum's rules allows to publish a p2p link?).
Anyway, you can find informations and links searchin the words "ebook.ita.programma".

Thanks again.

[antp]

If it is not an illegal file you can put the link I guess, the forbidden links are those to download full movies, mp3, etc., being P2P or not

[bad4u]

Sorry, but I do not use any P2P software. Anyway, search results from google do not seem to lead to legal content. No chance I will spend time on it then.

[fulvio53s03]

The file is not illegal nor covered by copyright. It's only a program cataloging a lot of books (about 2800) and the diffusion of those books may be illegal but nobodywants to diffuse them!
The only things I'm interested is not to buy a book with no ideas on its contents and having a good way to catalog my books, I never waste my time!