"Ed Stockly" wrote:
> Wayne, If that's all you want, and it's not unusual to want to pull just one
> or two values from an xml file, here's a quick way to do it.
>
> set text item delimiters to "<key>creation</key>" set creationDate to text
> item 2 of myText
> set text item delimiters to "<string>"
This is exactly the wrong way to approach XML and XML-like structured
documents. That's why they're structured.
Sure, this kind of scripting can get the data, but it's a lot of clutter for
no benefit. It's too specific to be a useful suggestion for any real
scripting of XML extraction. (In my view, that is.)
Also, I'm not sure I get any actual questions in Wayne's posts. Wayne, you
say you were "only trying to force a discussion". Why? What's the beef?
There are any number of ways to deal with XML, but known and unknown
structured documents. OSAX are a part of AppleScript and there are known
ways to included them without an additional installation (as has been
demonstrated here, re: bundles.)
You have the built-in Plist Suite and you have the stuff from
Satimage...both are useful and easily implemented.
It seems like there's a lot of chatter about nothing going on in this
thread.
<shrug>
--
Gary
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