Apple

On Feb 6, 2008, at 12:20 AM, Chuck Hill wrote:

About the only description I can find of the 'ascii' format of Apple's plist is:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/PropertyLists/Articles/OldStylePListsConcept.html

Therein is an example of dictionary text that should parse to a NSDictionary, namely:

  {
      AnimalSmells = { pig = piggish; lamb = lambish; worm = wormy; };
      AnimalSounds = { pig = oink; lamb = baa; worm = baa;
                      Lisa = "Why is the worm talking like a lamb?"; }
      AnimalColors = { pig = pink; lamb = black; worm = pink; }
  }

However, NSPropertyListSerialization.dictionaryForString fails to parse it.
If semi-colons are appended to the 4th and 5th lines, all is well, ie:

  {
     AnimalSmells = { pig = piggish; lamb = lambish; worm = wormy; };
     AnimalSounds = { pig = oink; lamb = baa; worm = baa;
                     Lisa = "Why is the worm talking like a lamb?"; };   <===
     AnimalColors = { pig = pink; lamb = black; worm = pink; };   <===
  }

I believe the documentation is in error, and that the WebObjects parser is correct ... Gavin

References:
	>NSPropertyListSerialization documentation error ? (From: Gavin Eadie <email@hidden>)
	>Re: NSPropertyListSerialization documentation error ? (From: Chuck Hill <email@hidden>)