I downloaded the blockchain and have all the .dat files.
Now: how do I explore the inner workings of each block? Is there a way to parse them to text/XML?
I know this is probably ridiculous because of it's length and size but theoretically it should be possible to scrape the Blockchain right?

EDIT: I found a fraction of the answer in this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=40822.0