Re: A good method for xml usage/parsing

FROM : Alexander Lamb
DATE : Mon Jan 27 16:36:25 2003

Indeed, I used the Castor framework to have an automatic mapping between
Java classes and XML structures and it works very nicely. What I was hoping
was exactly that sort of mapping model based parsing for the Objectice-C
world.

Alex

On 25.1.2003 0:57, "Kaelin Colclasure" <<email_removed>> wrote:

> 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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