Since we're on the subject of
pinnacle XML, I wanted to throw this challenge out there to my fellow "R-Tards." For those without any experience in R, it's probably beyond your ability but I guess it could still be a good learning experience. I spent a few hours yesterday trying to parse out Pinnacle's XML file in R using the XML package without much success.
Download R
http://www.r-project.org/
XML Package Documentation
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/XML/XML.pdf
I've attached yesterday's Pinnacle XML file for download so we don't have to hammer their server every time we load the data (download it and edit the code to direct it to the new directory location). I've also attached some sample code to copy/paste into R's GUI to get the ball rolling.
Ideally, I'd like the parsed XML in a data.frame format within R. That's an easy to reference table with columns similar to the way Excel parses the XML file.
500 betpoints, my gratitude and respect goes to anyone who can finish the job.