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Re: Question about Property List Editor
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Re: Question about Property List Editor


  • Subject: Re: Question about Property List Editor
  • From: Thomas Wetmore <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:31:20 -0400

Yes, the Property List Editor I am using is version 3.1. My apologies.

And my question does turn out to have been very dumb. Unbeknownst to me, BBEdit understands Apple binary Plist format, and puts these files into XML format when it opens them. (You can use BBEdit to edit these binary files. When BBEdit writes these files it is back into the binary format.)

Because I was checking the results of the Property List Editor by using BBEdit on the binary files I was totally snookered into believing the files were still in XML text format.

Tom Wetmore


On Jul 6, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Greg Guerin wrote:

Thomas Wetmore wrote:

I've been working on a data intensive project for the iPhone/iPod Touch using Xcode (this is NOT a question pertaining to NDA'd material)

You mention a feature of Property List Editor that isn't present in the version shipped with Xcode 3.0, so it probably *is* a question pertaining to NDA'd material.


In any case, I have 2 suggestions:
1. Use the plutil command instead of Property List Editor.
2. File a bug-report against the malfunctioning (and apparently beta) Property List Editor.


You can run plutil in a script to convert as many files as you wish. You can convert them back to XML by a script, too. You can add a Script build phase to Xcode to do this automatically, if appropriate.

Online man-page for plutil:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/plutil.1.html

You should also be able to see it using Xcode's man-page viewer (Help menu, IIRC), or the old-fashioned way: typing 'man plutil' in a Terminal window.

 -- GG

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