# XML and HTML export configuration file
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/xml-and-html-export-configuration-file/1712
**Category:** Export
**Created:** [February 18, 2005, 5:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/xml-and-html-export-configuration-file/1712 "2005-02-18T17:24:28Z")
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2006, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/xml-and-html-export-configuration-file/1712/32 "2006-02-03T12:52:08Z")
You can't script inside $loop() function.
There's 2 workarounds (since v2.35a) for the album artist issue ATM:
Copy all ARTIST tags to BAND and for compilations do BAND=VA and use $loop(%band%)
or if you have a foler structure like
artist\album\*.mp3
$loop(%\_parent\_directory%) can be used
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