Re: Iterating over items in a record, possible?
Re: Iterating over items in a record, possible?
- Subject: Re: Iterating over items in a record, possible?
- From: Emmanuel Levy <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:21:07 +0100
At 5:08 AM -0500 1/9/09, Ken Tozier wrote:
Hi
I'm writing a general purpose script to convert a complex nested
record into an Apple "plist" and can't figure out how to iterate
over items in a record if I don't know any of the record keys
beforehand. For example, given the following record, I'd like to
iterate the items and get the keywords and the values something like
the following pseudo-code
set aRecord to {height: 100, width: 100, originX: 10, originY: 10}
set xml to "<dict>" & return
repeat with anItem in aRecord
set itemKey to keyword of anItem
set itemValue to value of anItem
set xml to xml & tab & "<key>" & itemKey & "</key>" & return
set xml to xml & tab & "<string>" & itemValue & "</string >" & return
end
set xml to xml & "</dict>"
Keep in mind, I have no control over the keywords and I actually
don't know what they are. They are whatever the target application
returns for a query.
In Smile, or with XMLLib.osax, that's fairly simple:
set aRecord to {height: 100, width: 100, originX: 10, originY: 10}
set p to plistnew aRecord
you may run then:
set xml to plistgetxml p
-->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>height</key>
<integer>100</integer>
<key>originx</key>
<integer>10</integer>
<key>originy</key>
<integer>10</integer>
<key>width</key>
<integer>100</integer>
</dict>
</plist>
Emmanuel
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