Re: Apple's Address Book File Format
Re: Apple's Address Book File Format
- Subject: Re: Apple's Address Book File Format
- From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 12:05:30 +0000
On Monday, December 31, 2001, at 04:30 am, Chris Hanson wrote:
I was originally going to use this in the application I'm working on
now because it's so darn easy, but I can't use it because the file
format isn't open. If the format isn't open, that means I'd have to
use a different format if I decide to support other platforms in the
future. And that's just not acceptable.
Well, it would be nicer if they just made the framework open :-)
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...
-- Finlay