Yes, that was it - thank you. I ended up using GTMStringEncoding from code.google.com
On 06/01/2012, at 6:09 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2012, at 11:00 PM, Peter Zegelin wrote: > >> I am trying to save a bookmark into an xml file but am having difficulty >> converting the bookmark to and from an NSString. > > Are you sure bookmarks are textual? From your trouble I’m guessing that > they’re not, the contents are binary. Trying to read this as a string is not > going to work. > > If you want to store binary data in an XML file, you’ll have to encode it > using something like base64. For some reason Apple has never seen fit to > include a public base64 codec API in the OS, but there are a number of > open-source implementations (it’s only a few pages of code.) > > —Jens > Peter _______________________________________________ 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
