NSKeyed archiver archive format in human readable format ?

FROM : Aurélien Hugelé
DATE : Tue Apr 05 18:53:07 2005

Hi list !

I've noticed that NSKeyed archive are *nearly* human readable: open 
such an archive with plist editor, you'll see it can be interpreted 
as an NSDictionary with various (standard+custom)keys and values.

Does any body already have really understood this format? is it 
documented? does any body even have written a small program that list 
the used keys, the class name etc ?

for the people who will ask "why do you want to do that ??" : i want 
to reverse engineer some Apple archives to see what class is archived 
inside, and what does it contain. I can then maybe unarchive them 
myself by reimplementing the archived classes.

thanks !