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Re: XML - System Events vs XMLlib

On 2007-08-31, at 08:57:01, has wrote:

This appears to do what you want, caveat that the lack of official System Events documentation means that I've no idea if this is officially supported behaviour or not:

That solution will only provide happiness under certain conditions. I think I can illustrate with:

set r1 to {Matthew:"Matthew", Mark:"Mark"}
set r2 to run script "{Luke:\"Luke\", John:\"John\"}"
{r1, r2}
--> {{Matthew:"Matthew", Mark:"Mark"}, {luke:"Luke", john:"John"}}

Irrelevant here, and a non-issue in any case: the default lowercasing of identifier names in AERecords is an AppleScript thing; if you need to preserve case, wrap the identifier in pipes.

The following illustrates specifically:

set f to "~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.applescript.plist"
tell application "System Events"
set plf to property list file f
set plist to make new property list item with data plf
value of plist
end tell

--> {|ChooseAppBounds|:"22 87 1024 1476 260 160 200 913 1 2 3", |AppleScriptTextStyles|:{…

Philip Aker
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