Re: Use XML to create extensible data structures in text fields?
Re: Use XML to create extensible data structures in text fields?
- Subject: Re: Use XML to create extensible data structures in text fields?
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 09:51:39 +1100
On 24 Nov 2017, at 5:14 am, Michael Grant <email@hidden> wrote:
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> But I have no idea whether this is actually a practical thing to do.
If you mean practical in a coding sense, then yes it is. Certainly, writing and
reading as property lists is straight forward. For your own XML structures,
practicality depends on the complexity of what you want to store, but the
advantage of being able to perform XPath queries might make it a better
approach.
In a coding sense, I don't see any advantage of JSON over property lists --
it's a lighter-weight way of transmitting data structures, but that's not what
you're talking about.
--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>
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