Create an XML file in iPhone app

Question

Hi, I have a big problem. My program must save a Xml file with 3 float value (x, y, z of accelerometer) and a NSString value (name). How can I do? Thanks so much

Answer 1

If you don't have specific requirement on the XML format, then you can use the NSKeyedArchiver class to archive the data in XML format:

float x, y, z;
NSString *name;

NSMutableData *data = [NSMutableData data];
NSKeyedArchiver *archiver = [[NSKeyedArchiver alloc] initForWritingWithMutableData:data];
[archiver setOutputFormat:NSPropertyListXMLFormat_v1_0];
[archiver encodeFloat:x forKey:@"x"];
[archiver encodeFloat:y forKey:@"y"];
[archiver encodeFloat:z forKey:@"z"];
[archiver encodeObject:name forKey:@"name"];
[archiver finishEncoding];
BOOL result = [data writeToFile:@"MyFile" atomically:YES];
[archiver release];

Once written, the reading is simple:

NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:@"MyFile"];
NSKeyedUnarchiver *unarchiver = [[NSKeyedUnarchiver alloc] initForReadingWithData:data];
x = [unarchiver decodeFloatForKey:@"x"];
y = [unarchiver decodeFloatForKey:@"y"];
z = [unarchiver decodeFloatForKey:@"z"];
name = [unarchiver decodeObjectForKey:@"name"];
[unarchiver finishDecoding];
[unarchiver release];