Re: XML?
Re: XML?
- Subject: Re: XML?
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 01:22:26 +0200
At 11:06 AM +0100 5/11/06, Ruth Bygrave wrote:
(incidentally, thanks to the people who tried to help with the
backup. Nothing is perfect: 'rsync' seems to be difficult unless the
user hits the exact magic collection of switches that makes it do
what they want; and Smile backup seems to be perfect except for
giving Finder a lot of event timeouts,
This is because you're telling Finder to run the "backup" command.
Instead, launch the "backup" command from Smile: Smile will be frozen
for the time the command runs, but you won't get any timeout problem.
That said, if you prefer to block your Finder rather than Smile, just
encapsulate your script with:
with timeout of 86400 seconds -- one day
[your script here]
end
Am also trying to learn about XML, using the Smile osax, and trying
to do a simple example list of books. This is difficult as the only
tutorial I can find (Smile's example) is a bit difficult to figure
out
We do sympathize. If you want us to help, too, you are welcome to
describe the problem you are facing.
Every book in the list may or may not have an optional comment
element. I've got Applescript to display the items in the list, but
I don't know how to get it to 'display comment if there is a
comment, otherwise don't'.
You don't tell us enough about what kind of list you are having in
the first place, and what you really mean with "display".
If you have to test for the existence of something, sometimes the
good way is to use a "try" block. Suppose you are building a string
from a list stored as XML. Suppose the <book> element may or may not
have a "comment" attribute: <book comment="quite a nice piece of
work">. Then the piece of script which would append the comment if
there is one to the string you are building could look like:
try
set theString to theString & XMLGetAttribute theBookNode name "comment"
end try
theString gets augmented if the attribute exists, otherwise the
"XMLGetAttribute" command fails silently, and theString remains
unchanged.
Emmanuel
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