Naming help - XML plist (Apple/Mac/iTunes)
I'm moving my photos from iPhoto on a Mac laptop to a Linux server with digiKam, and want to preserve all the photo albums I'd created in iPhoto. I did a bunch of googling around, and found two things: 1. Mac::iPhoto - which is apparently out of date, and doesn't work with current versions of iPhoto 2. A blog entry by Tom Gidden where he posts some scripts he wrote to parse the info, but his scripts can only run on the Mac as they use the Foundation classes to parse the XML. So, I wrote my own code to parse the XML and create a hash/array structure equivalent for Perl. This XML format is used all over Apple software, including iTunes which also runs on Windows. So, I'd like to publish this on CPAN, but I'm not quite sure where to put it. I could put it under Mac:: but the iTunes/Windows option rules that out in my mind. Apple:: makes sense, but some might think that the module was produced by Apple or one of its employees which is not true. I don't know if this plist XML format is used anywhere outside of Apple software though? Would XML::PList work? Any ideas are welcome.
Re: Naming help - XML plist (Apple/Mac/iTunes)
* Bill Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-06-13T04:17:26] So, I'd like to publish this on CPAN, but I'm not quite sure where to put it. I could put it under Mac:: but the iTunes/Windows option rules that out in my mind. Apple:: makes sense, but some might think that the module was produced by Apple or one of its employees which is not true. I don't know if this plist XML format is used anywhere outside of Apple software though? Would XML::PList work? Any ideas are welcome. The other plist things seem to be filed under Mac. Mac::PropertyList, Mac::Tie::PList, Mac::iTunes::Library::PList, Mac::PropertyList::SAX. I think that since almost all plist files are on Mac OS, using Mac:: for PLists parsing isn't crazy. XML::Plist would be fine, too, if you only parse the XML version. I don't think there's any point to starting an Apple::. -- rjbs
Re: Naming help - XML plist (Apple/Mac/iTunes)
From: Ricardo SIGNES [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Bill Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-06-13T04:17:26] So, I'd like to publish this on CPAN, but I'm not quite sure where to put it. I could put it under Mac:: but the iTunes/Windows option rules that out in my mind. Apple:: makes sense, but some might think that the module was produced by Apple or one of its employees which is not true. I don't know if this plist XML format is used anywhere outside of Apple software though? Would XML::PList work? Any ideas are welcome. The other plist things seem to be filed under Mac. Mac::PropertyList, Mac::Tie::PList, Mac::iTunes::Library::PList, Mac::PropertyList::SAX. I think that since almost all plist files are on Mac OS, using Mac:: for PLists parsing isn't crazy. XML::Plist would be fine, too, if you only parse the XML version. I don't like XML::Plist. I would not have any idea what kind of list is it supposed to mean. And I bet there's quite a few others in the same situation. If it's something Apple specific, let's say that in the name. Whether it'd be Apple, Mac or iTunes I don't care. Jenda = [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz = When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery
Re: Naming help - XML plist (Apple/Mac/iTunes)
On Jun 13, 2008, at 6:48 PM, Bill Ward wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that plists can also be stored in a binary format; would you want to support that also? If so, how about Parse::ApplePlist? I don't know anything about the binary format but its existence does argue against the XML prefix for sure. On a Mac, you can use plutil -convert xml1 -o out.xml in.xml and plutil -convert binary1 -o out.xml in.xml to switch back and forth. You can also use the -lint option to validate your data files. I *think* the binary format was introduced in 10.4, but maybe it was 10.3. Chris
