Re: Getting started with XML?
Re: Getting started with XML?
- Subject: Re: Getting started with XML?
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 18:14:49 -0700
On Dec 7, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Christopher Nebel wrote:
-- assuming that "XMLfile" has been set to an alias...
tell application "System Events"
set foo to contents of XML file (path of f) -- "'f as text' would
have worked, too, as would 'POSIX path of f'."
end tell
The explicit "path of" is necessary because System Events does not
recognize an alias a selector data for a file.
Once you're done there, "foo" will be an "XML data" object
specifier. To get parts of it, direct your eyes upward in the
dictionary from "XML file" to "XML data" and observe that an "XML
data" contains "XML elements". You can also get the text
representation by saying "text of", but for an element that's
mostly only useful for debugging.
Thanks.
Don't forget that if the XML file you're dealing with is a plist,
then you ought to be using the Property List Suite instead. It's
easier to work with, and there's no guarantee that a plist is XML.
No, it's not a plist; it's an XML export from iTunes.
-- Michelle
--
It is not who I am underneath, but what I do, that defines me.
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