Re: XML to NSDictionary
Re: XML to NSDictionary
- Subject: Re: XML to NSDictionary
- From: Chris <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:01:01 -0800
I am also looking for an example like the one mentioned in the posts
bellow. I have been experimenting with parsing an XML file into a
NSDictionary, and then working from there. But I am thinking there is
a better way.
On Nov 10, 2006, at 11:18 AM, Marc Respass wrote:
I don't want to attach files and send to the list so I'll hit you
privately
Marc
On Nov 10, 2006, at 1:36 PM, Alexander Griekspoor wrote:
Thanks Marc and Robert, this was what I was hoping for to hear.
You can, if you don't know, convert to anything with XSLT so you
might even convert to an old style ASCII plist. The XML plist is
nice because you get data types (numbers, dates, booleans)
This was exactly what I planned to do, instantiate an NSDictionary
from this and voila. So the next question, did anyone has ever
done this that would be willing to share the XSL stylesheet to
transfer a particular xml file into a plist as an example?
Thanks!
Alex
On 10-nov-2006, at 18:25, Marc Respass wrote:
Alex,
I've done this. The XML file that I convert is big and complex
and the conversion is very fast (using xerces in Java or the XSL
libs in Mac OS X). I'm a huge advocate of using XSLT to convert
an XML doc to something useful. XML has this tendency to make
people think it's a solution and then come up with the most
outrageous and useless document. Use XSLT to convert it to
something you can use :).
You can, if you don't know, convert to anything with XSLT so you
might even convert to an old style ASCII plist. The XML plist is
nice because you get data types (numbers, dates, booleans) but if
you don't care then an ascii plist is easier to read and might be
a bit easier to build.
Hope this help
Marc
On Nov 10, 2006, at 6:30 AM, Alexander Griekspoor wrote:
Hi,
I have an XML file that I want to convert to a nsdictionary for
easy access/enumeration etc. instead of using XPath queries all
the time to do lookups (this works but gets rather slow and
seems expensive with large xml files). So I was playing with the
following thought: would it perhaps be a good plan to do an XSLT
operation on the xml document to at once convert it into apple's
plist format and use that to instantiate an NSDictionary from?
Has anyone ever tried something alike or could comment on
whether this would be something smart to do?
Another thing to speed up parsing my xml file would be to use an
xslt to remove all unwanted crap from the xml file, after which
xpath queries will be much faster I guess? I don't like the xml
parser as an alternative for the dom based approach because it
gives you so much info to handle that I don't care about (but
perhaps not after the xslt based removal of unwanted info that I
was thinking about above). Any feedback is welcome.
Alex
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