On 1 Mar 2010, at 1:37 PM, Colin Cornaby wrote:
> I'm working with NSXMLDocument and serializing it to a file... The issue is
> the serialized output contains numbers in exponential formal, i.e.
> installKBytes="1.744E3". Other programs aren't parsing this correctly... Is
> there any way to modify the output to just format the numbers normally?
I see this in the documentation for -[NSXMLNode setObjectValue:] (which I
assume you're passing an NSNumber into):
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Note: Prior to Mac OS X v 10.6 setObjectValue: would improperly and
inconsistently format objects that were NSNumber instances. Applications linked
on Mac OS X 10.6 or later will use correct scientific notation for all
NSNumbers passed to setObjectValue:.
If you require a particular format for any value in your XML document, you
should format the data yourself as a string and then use setStringValue: to set
the value. This guarantees that the text generated is in a format you control
directly.
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So if your consumers don't like scientific notation, use an NSNumberFormatter
to get the preferred format, and set the string value yourself.
The same applies, I imagine, to -[NSXMLElement setAttributesAsDictionary:].
Possibly I'm misunderstanding you. You really don't say how you're putting your
numbers into the document.
— F
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