Re: problem writing out XML suite parsed file to disk

Subject: Re: problem writing out XML suite parsed file to disk

Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:56:13 +0100

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There's a couple of things that stand out.

Why is the write command within a System Events tell? It's from the Standard Additions osax and has nothing to do with System Events.

The try block will not close the file if it throws an error. You've left out the "on error" portion so the block just ignores any errors. This is fine if you don't need to handle errors but in this case you do!

This script is written with the assumption that "thePodcast" is textual in nature and not audio or video.

--> Script <--
set fPath to "the:path:to:your:file" as Unicode text
try
set fRef to open for access file fPath with write permission
set eof fRef to 0 -- not necessary if new file
write thePodcast to fRef as text starting at 0
close access fRef
on error errMsg number errNum
close access file fPath
display alert ("Error # " & errNum) message errMsg buttons {"Cancel"} giving up after 5
-- your error handler code goes here
end try
--> /Script <--

JBS

JBS,

thanks for your input - I now have it working! I did have on error handling already within the try/end try block, but separating out getting the text from the thePodcast object, which uses XML suite (which is why it was in the System Events tell block), from the actual writing of the file did the trick. The working script now looks like:

set xmlFile to "/Path/To/XMLFILE/file1.xml"

tell application "System Events"

set thePodcast to (contents of XML file xmlFile)

end tell

set posixPath to "/Path/To/XMLFILE/file2.xml"

set file_pointer to POSIX file posixPath

try

set the open_file to open for access file_pointer with write permission

set eof of the open_file to 0

tell application "System Events"

set podcastText to text of thePodcast

end tell

write podcastText to open_file starting at eof

close access open_file

on error error_message number error_number

close access open_file

display dialog "An error was encountered writing the file to: " & open_file & ". Error: " & error_message

end try

</script>

Thanks!

Will

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