= Nokogiri-PList
== DESCRIPTION:
Nokogiri-plist provides the functionality for dealing with XML in Apple's property list format.
There is already a plist gem (http://github.com/bleything/plist) that has similar functionality. I didn't realize it until I had written most of this gem. However this gem uses Nokogiri, so the implementation is simpler. The plist gem does its own XML parsing. I figured since I was already using Nokogiri in my project, it's better to build on top of that. I did get ideas from the original gem. I have benchmarked my gem against that gem and it performs similarly. Once I come up with a little more scientific benchmarks, I'll show them.'
== FEATURES:
== USAGE:
Sample plist (test.plist)
require 'nokogiri-plist'
Parse the plist XML
plist = Nokogiri::PList(open('test.plist')) => { "Beers" => ["Black Butte", "Steel Reserve", "Bass Pale Ale"], "Beers Drank" => 4123, "Beer Drinker" => "Casey"}
Read a dict property thats value is an array
plist["Beers"] => ["Black Butte", "Steel Reserve", "Bass Pale Ale"]
Read another value
plist["Beer Drinker"] => "Casey"
Turn it into a string containing XML
puts plist.to_plist_xml
Beers Black Butte Steel Reserve Bass Pale Ale Beers Drank 4123 Beer Drinker Casey
Convert a string into a plist XML string
"beer".to_plist_xml => "
beer "
Convert an array to a plist XML string
puts (1..3).to_a.to_plist_xml
1 2 3
== REQUIREMENTS:
== INSTALL: