Use XML to create extensible data structures in text fields?
Use XML to create extensible data structures in text fields?
- Subject: Use XML to create extensible data structures in text fields?
- From: Michael Grant <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 12:14:59 -0600
I often want to add my own structured custom data to various list-based
applications like task managers, address books, and whatnot. An example
would be adding budget or client data to projects and tasks in OmniFocus.
Most of these apps do offer some kind of "notes" field where I can enter
arbitrary text, but I'd like to have something more structured so I can do
things like compare, sort, or sum data from consistently defined "fields".
So, I've been toying with the idea of creating my own XML data structures,
maybe using something like plists as a model, to hold this kind of stuff
and storing them in these notes fields, with a collection of AppleScripts
to parse and manipulate the data. But I have no idea whether this is
actually a practical thing to do. Has anyone else out there tried anything
like this?
Thanks,
Michael
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