Re: XML to Plist

2010-12-28 Thread Peter Lübke
Hi Sandro, just to mention it (this has nothing to do with your original question): Why don't you create your NSMutableDictionary with [NSMutableDictionary dictionary] ? This produces exactly the same result as [[[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init] autorelease] - practically all Cocoa CLASS met

Re: XML to Plist

2010-12-28 Thread Sandro Noël
Greg, Thank you for the input, I was just in the process of writing that down on paper. very appreciated!! Sandro. On 2010-12-28, at 1:56 PM, Greg Guerin wrote: > Sandro Noël wrote: > >> the glitch that breaks all my current logic is when there are elements with >> the same name at the sa

Re: XML to Plist

2010-12-28 Thread Greg Guerin
Sandro Noël wrote: the glitch that breaks all my current logic is when there are elements with the same name at the same level. for instance in a RSS, rss chanel item item item this breaks the logic I can apply to a NSDictionary, becau

Re: XML to Plist

2010-12-28 Thread Gary L. Wade
Following on the same path as suggested to take a step back and examine what you want to happen, launch Property List Editor, create a Property List file, and manually add the items from your XML scenarios to determine what you really want to happen for each item you encounter. On 12/28/2010 10:34

Re: XML to Plist

2010-12-28 Thread Sandro Noël
Greg, thank you. the glitch that breaks all my current logic is when there are elements with the same name at the same level. for instance in a RSS, rss chanel item item item this breaks the logic I can apply to a NSDictionary, because th

Re: XML to Plist

2010-12-28 Thread Greg Guerin
Sandro Noël wrote: - (NSDictionary *) plist{ NSMutableDictionary *resultDict = [[[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init] autorelease]; if ([self hasChildren]){ NSMutableArray *child = [[[NSMutableArray alloc]init] autorelease]; for (OSXMLElement *element in

XML to Plist

2010-12-28 Thread Sandro Noël
Greetings. I'm trying to convert XML file to a plist format. i am using the event driven method of XMLParser for iOS. it is currently working to some level but i am having a problem with XMl elements all being nested into Dictionaries. for example the following XML: text