One possible approach is to have a web site return the reformatted
result set, though I don't know what YMJ would do with the returned
data.

On 8/6/07, Pell, Blake B. <bpell@...> wrote:
> I could be wrong, but I don't think you're going to be able to get File
> I/O access from a web plugin. IE (and most browsers) typically block
> that even in trusted zones (or should). If you're wanting to write to
> the file system you're probably going to have to write a full .Net
> plugin to do it. If you're wanting to write it into another format than
> the ToXML gives you it maybe possible to use a DataSet to easily get at
> the XML (.Net also includes XML parsing libraries but the DataSet maybe
> the easiest and quickest). See if this Url helps out, it includes both
> C# and Vb.Net examples of using the DataSet to read XML (both document
> with and without schemas):
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> From: ymedev@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ymedev@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of Alex S. Brown, PMP
> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 8:00 PM
> To: ymedev@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ymedev] Trying to Write Playlist Information to a Local File
> from a Web Plug-In
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> I am trying to replicate one of the great features of the MusicMatch
> software within YME, and I am running into a brick wall.
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> MusicMatch has the ability to export information about any playlist in
> a variety of formats (text, XLS, etc.). Some formats have lots of
> detail, some very little. YME does not seem to have that feature.
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> I saw the Excel plug-in, but it does not do everything that the old
> MusicMatch exports would do, plus it relies on a pesky automation
> interface to Excel. I am an OpenOffice user and would rather not rely
> on Excel.
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> Here is the problem: I am writing a web plug-in, and I have the basic
> playlist information loaded up and working. I can get the ToXML
> function to work, and I can get specific columns of data about the
> playlist.
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> My problem is that I cannot figure out how to write this great data
> out to a file. It might be some kind of security setting for web-based
> plug ins, but I cannot find a way to write a local file with the XML
> or the playlist data in a tab-separated format. If there is no
> workaround I might simply have the plug-in write the information to a
> text box. I can always copy-and-paste from the text box into a text
> editor, but that seems silly.
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> The techniques I have used so far include trying to create an ActiveX
> File System Object using the following statement:
> fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
> I get an error that it cannot create the ActiveX object.
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> I also tried using the built-in ExportPlaylist2 function, but it
> always returns "false" (unable to complete the export).
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> Any ideas about what might work here? I thought the web plug-ins
> operated in a "trusted" zone where we would have access to file I/O.
> If not, I guess I will have to copy-and-paste or work on a DLL-based
> plug-in.
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> --Alex
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