Name

NSPropertyListSerialization — Mac OS X 10.2

Synopsis

This class provides functionality to convert organizations of property list objects (NSArray, NSDictionary, NSData, NSString, and NSNumber) to and from XML or binary data formats.

@interface NSPropertyListSerialization : NSObject

                                  // Class Methods

   + (NSData *)dataFromPropertyList:(id)plist 
                                 format:(NSPropertyListFormat)format
                                 errorDescription:(NSString **)errorString;

   + (BOOL)propertyList:(id)plist 
                                 isValidForFormat:(NSPropertyListFormat)format;

   + (id)propertyListFromData:(NSData *)data 
                                 mutabilityOption:(NSPropertyListMutabilityOptions)opt
                                 format:(NSPropertyListFormat *)format 
                                 errorDescription:(NSString **)errorString;