Re: Apple's Address Book File Format
Re: Apple's Address Book File Format
- Subject: Re: Apple's Address Book File Format
- From: Marcel Weiher <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:50:59 +0100
On Sonntag, Januar 6, 2002, at 01:05 Uhr, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
Apple should either open up the archive file format (and yes, this
includes the way the property list classes encode themselves) or
create a new NSCoder subclass that can encode to and decode from XML
(and still open up how the property list classes encode themselves).
I'm sure Apple has said a while ago that they are working on an NSCoder
that uses XML, and that it's "waiting in the wings", or something. That
was pre-10.1 though, IIRC, and it didn't appear then so...
In the meantime, you can use the MPWXmlKit, which has an NSCoder that
uses XML. Get it at
http://www.metaobject.com/Community.html
Marcel
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