Why does my xmlout.xml have zero entries!?

[badbob001]

I'm trying to setup mgalaxy for the first time to use with mame but I can't get the database created properly. When I have runway create the database, I see a \data\multi-system [mame]\temp.xml grow up to 180KB. But then the resulting xmlout.xml only has the following:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<dbase name="Multi-system [MAME]" version="0.164 (Jul 29 2015)" />

What exactly happens between temp.xml and xmlout.xml?

Next I tried this:

1. mame64.exe -listxml > temp.xml
2. use runway to import temp.xml
3. now xmlout.xml is full of stuff, but yet starting mgalaxy still shows: Filters returned an empty game list. Under filters, show 'available roms only' is NOT enabled.

I suspect the raw output from mame's listxml is NOT meant to be imported into mgalaxy.

Installation:
mgalaxy 5.5: d:\mgalaxy\
mame64 1.64: d:\mgalaxy\mame\

If I choose the option to create the database not using mame's integrated one, then I can see a list of games, but it's a horrible list of filenames. I check the xmlout.xml and it does different from mame's xml output.

I suspect there is some 'magic' that transforms mame's listxml output to an xml format that mgalaxy uses. What am I doing wrong? How can I create this database outside of mgalaxy?

[mgalaxy]

Please see this topic:
http://www.mgalaxy.com/forum/index.php?topic=797.msg3128#msg3128

[badbob001]

Thanks for the tip. I got it working now. I had no idea that the xml output from recent versions of mame is not supported. Good thing for romlister.