XML?

Richard_Gorbutt · December 9, 2014, 8:35pm

Just wondering, I make heavy use of XMDocument and XMLNodeList etc, and thinking of migrating a desktop app to a simplieifed iOS, but I can’t see any mention of XML handling in the iOS docs? Is that available or further down the pipe?

Thanks

Paul_Lefebvre · December 9, 2014, 8:50pm

XML is not available with iOS at the moment. However, JSON is available so maybe you can convert the XML to JSON to use it in iOS?

Richard_Gorbutt · December 9, 2014, 9:30pm

Thanks for the answer. I have no control over what the server(s) return as part of the query other than well formed XML. All I could see for JSON in the docs was an exception handler. Did I miss something?

Paul_Lefebvre · December 9, 2014, 9:46pm

Yes. The two methods for dealing with JSON are on the Data page: Xojo.Data.GenerateJSON and Xojo.Data.ParseJSON.

To see how it is used, take a look at the XojoNotes example project which uses JSON to save the notes data.

Richard_Gorbutt · December 9, 2014, 9:59pm

I appreciate the response, I found them as per your link. I use JSON as part of the desktop app to store configs and stuff so I’m good with that. If I decide to do it now, I need to manually parse the XML which for what I need is not as scary as it sounds

Probably some fiddling time when all is quiet in the house!