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I started parsing the xml in 2009 when it first came out. Back then I was using the (then) latest version of Microsoft's xml parser.
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I don't understand why you went through all this.
I just download the XML file, open it in excel, it gets translated and puts each field into neat columns with headings, and then I import it into my database. It literally takes me a minute. I do it once late morning when the east coast tracks I might play come in and then once later in the day if I am going to play west coast tracks.
Where I've had huge difficulty is with the Timeform API. No matter what I did I couldn't translate the XML in a similar fashion and I'm way too lazy at this point to learn how to do it or write a parser. So I threw in the towel.
I find text files way easier to work with anyway.