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This is a quick tutorial on how to make it easy to support multiple languages in your Java programs.
I wrote this little Java game a while back. This was actually my first ever Java project. I’d quite forgotten about it, but I just came across it, and thought I would post it here for your enjoyment.
I’ve been playing around with Firefly Media Server a bit of late, and I needed a good way to convert my existing iTunes playlists into m3u files which Firefly would understand. Since iTunes exports XML playlist files, and since I’ve been meaning to learn some XSLT, I thought I’d give an XSLT converter a try.
The XSLT relies on features found in XSTL 2.0, so you’ll need a 2.0 compatible processor, like Saxon. To use Saxon, you’ll also need Java installed, and Saxon is command-line only.
To use with Saxon, export your playlist from iTunes as an XML file, and then run:
This will strip out any escaped values in the URLs in the iTunes XML file, and strip off the leading “file://localhost/” from each file. Enjoy!
Get it here: itunesToM3u.xsl