Re: A good method for xml usage/parsing

FROM : Kaelin Colclasure
DATE : Sat Jan 25 00:57:33 2003

At the risk of being flamed for heresy, I'll point out that Java offers
quite comprehensive XML support. I admit I have not yet personally
explored the ramifications of "toll-free bridging" between ObjC and
Java, but it would seem to offer some intriguing possibilities...

-- Kaelin

On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 07:29  AM, Josh Ferguson wrote:

> Francisco,
>
> Unfortunately, in my experience there really isn't anything built into
> cocoa. The program that I work on (FileStorm) stores its projects as
> XML files using an NSDictionary and the CoreFoundation function
> CFPropertyListCreateXMLData (using NSString's propertyList .  This
> works great when all of your objects conform to NSCoding and as long
> as these files are meant to be read by Cocoa and Carbon applications
> (since they'll have the built in tools to interpret them).
>
> I also recently worked on a small project that needed to read and
> write XML files that were going to be read/written by a .NET
> application on the Windows platform.  Unfortunately, Apple's plist
> format for XML is somewhat restrictive, and certainly not always
> appropriate for all types of data.  In this case, I used libxml (a C
> library).  They have a pretty easy-to-follow tutorial at their site
> that will show you the basics of how to use the library (it's not
> complicated, but not real intuitive either).  Before jumping into
> that, I recommend that you have a decent understanding of XML concepts
> (and vocabulary).  Using libxml won't be as pretty as your typical
> cocoa code, but once you get past the initial learning curve I think
> you'll find that it's a more robust solution than the CoreFoundation
> offerings.
>
> That's just my two cents.
>
> Josh Ferguson
> FileStorm Development
> MindVision Software
> www.mindvision.com/filestorm
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francisco Tolmasky [mailto:<email_removed>]
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 11:31 PM
> To: Cocoa Development List
> Subject: A good method for xml usage/parsing
>
>
> Ok, I'm writing a program and I'd like to use xml as my file type.
> Now, if I'm not mistaken archiving things does put them in some sort of
> xml format correct?  I'm not sure if this is enough though.  I
> basically want to store a database in xml format, what would you guys
> suggest is the best method.  I took a look at the core foundations
> stuff and there must be an easier way.  I also saw STXML, but with a
> sophisticated system that complies to standard like cocoa, I would
> think it would be built in no?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.  Thank you.
>
>
> Francisco Tolmasky
> <email_removed>
> http://users.adelphia.net/~ftolmasky
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