Re: XML - System Events vs XMLlib

Subject: Re: XML - System Events vs XMLlib

From: Wayne Melrose <email@hidden>

Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:00:18 +0200

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On 29/08/2007, at 11:59 PM, Gary (Lists) wrote:

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.

My beef is that to get a good XML parser/editor I have to install a scripting addition.. Which I don't actually have a problem with when dealing with just my machine.. But my request from my own superiors is to not have to include any extra items for installing on the machine..

This discussion has suggested that I can include OSAX inside my script? Is that right?

Apologies for the discussion, I don't mean to make it "Pointless"

My Question's (I spose) Are:

A) People don't use System Events for parsing

B) Where to find some really good examples

C) Why very powerful commands such as the ones available in XMLLib are not included in OSX

I did also post a small sample bit of code which Philip Aker responded too, thanks Philip that also helped :)

Thanks everyone, apologies for the noise.

Wayne Melrose

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