Re: Lists to XML ?
Re: Lists to XML ?
- Subject: Re: Lists to XML ?
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 12:54:42 +1100
On 26 Mar 2017, at 11:38 am, Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden> wrote:
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> When I think that the whole thing was 2 loops with basically what amounts to a few text transformations, it's quite amazing that it took so much time to get everything working.
The first time at anything is always slower.
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> When I started this, I first thought of working with checks on the data (to convert everything that's illegal in XML) and then adding strings to produce the XML tags, but I figured that would not be very challenging... But I would consider twice going the NSXML route for trivial pieces of XML that I need to output on a daily basis (although, I guess that once the code is in the script it wouldn't make much difference). Also, I guess, going NSXML allows the script to be much faster than with normal AS string processing.
It might even be slower for simple stuff, not that it would be noticeable in such cases. The pay-off is that you follow the rules and you don't have to worry that you missed something. And you can add code to do validation, as well as applying XSLT transforms.
From my point of view, the biggest gains come when reading XML, and being able to perform XPath queries.
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Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>
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