On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Ken Ferry <kenfe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > >> >> On Oct 13, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Bridger Maxwell wrote: >> >> I would like to read more on the NSKeyedArchiver XML format, but can't >>> find >>> documentation on it. Is it open? >>> >> >> No. It's undocumented and could change in the future; writing code for >> another platform that parses it would probably be a bad idea. > > > I agree. > > But as you originally noted, there's nothing stopping you from writing your > own coder subclasses that read and write a format you understand. > > Nor is there anything stopping you from dropping in classes written by > someone else. You could use > MAKeyedArchiver<http://www.mikeash.com/?page=software/source.html>. > As long as the source is in your app, you control the format.
Note that MAKeyedArchiver is old and crusty. In particular, it was written at a naive time in my life when it seemed like Macs would be big-endian forever. The archives it creates are not cross-compatible between PPC and x86. I think that it *might* work in 64-bit mode, simply because I was lucky enough to use int everywhere and their size didn't change, but I wouldn't count on it. In short: MAKeyedArchiver is probably instructive, and may even be a good base to start with when creating your own, but please don't use it as-is. (If anyone feels like fixing it up to use proper stdint types and byte swapping functions, I'll be happy to add your contributions to the package.) Mike _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
