Apple

On Mar 24, 2017, at 8:14, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:

And the other option is AppleScriptObjC. Here's something very simple:

use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use framework "Foundation"
use scripting additions

set theList to {"a", "b", 1, 2, 3.3}
set listElement to current application's NSXMLNode's elementWithName:"array"
repeat with anItem in theList
set newNode to (current application's NSXMLNode's elementWithName:"entry" stringValue:anItem)
(listElement's addChild:newNode)
end repeat
return listElement's XMLString() as text

Shane,

I don't understand the syntax of the line:

(listElement's addChild:newNode)

I see that it looks like the previous line's

(current application's NSXMLNode's elementWithName:"entry" stringValue:anItem)

but it stands on it's own line without any AS command, *and* it's between parens.

Is there a place in your book where that is explained ?

Also, the longer line is creating an instance of a class, right ? So that's the reason why we need to have "current application", is that correct ?

Jean-Christophe

References:
	>Lists to XML ? (From: Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Lists to XML ? (From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>)