Re: definition list recommendations?
Re: definition list recommendations?
- Subject: Re: definition list recommendations?
- From: Bruce Robertson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:40:24 -0800
> XMLLib stores the data that you submit to it into a persistent
> structure, that you can save to disk (as a XML file), and that you
> can use in your script. You can count on the data, whatever your
> script may be doing with them later.
>
> Has' libraries store references to the data, so that in your script
> you can refer to your data (and in particular, retrieve them) in an
> efficient and fast fashion.
>
> So, yes, XMLLib stores any kind of AppleScript quantity: numbers,
> file specifications, even script objects. And, yes, Has' libraries
> store more objects: they can store references belonging to
> applications, which make sense in a script but which would be a dead
> horse once stored on disk (application references have a contextual
> meaning, Finder's window 1 today will not be an interesting concept
> tomorrow.)
Examples of handling arbitrary object types? This can be done in XML or
PList or both?
I've looked at the online files and I can kinda see what you're saying but
this does seem surprising as I'd expect every element to be parsable XML
text.
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