[X4U] XML DTDs

[Mark Phillips]

Rick,

John meant that the Property List Editor.app would do the decoding for 
you. I would expect any application designed to read your source 
document ought to be able to decode base 64.

Base 64 encoding has been around for a long time. Any modern 
programming language you use will offer a encode/decode function or 
module.

hth,

  - Mark

On Jul 9, 2005, at 11:36 AM, Rick Nagle wrote:

> John,
>
> All in well, expect, I want to decode the <data>
> part of this, to which I ask, what application
> would do this?
>
> Richard
>
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: John Baltutis <baltwo at san.rr.com>
>> To: x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
>> Sent: 07/07/2005 12:55:16 PM -0400
>> Subject: [X4U] XML DTDs
>> On 07/07/05, Rick Nagle <cms01 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>>> So, what app, would decode this ?
>>> it would appear the <data> is in DTD format?
>>>
>>> [<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>>> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
>>> "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
>>> <plist version="1.0">
>>>     <array>
>>>        <dict>
>>>           <key>RichTextSignature</key>
>>>
>>> <data>
>>> cnRmZAAAAAADAAAAAgAAAAcAAABUWFQucnRmAQAAAC78AQAAKwAAAAEAAAD0
>>> AQAAe1xydGYxXG1hY1xhbnNpY3BnMTAwMDBcY29jb2FydGYxMDIKe1xmb250
>>> dGJsXGYwXGZzd2lzc1xmY2hhcnNldDc3IEhlbHZldGljYS1PYmxpcXVlO30K
>>> ...etc </data>]
>> If you click on the link you provided
>> (<http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd>), you'll see that 
>> the
>> data is "interpreted as Base-64 encoded" and "should conform to a 
>> subset of
>> ISO 8601 (in particular, YYYY '-' MM '-' DD 'T' HH ':' MM ':' SS 
>> 'Z'." Use
>> the Property List Editor.app included with Xcode Tools to read plist 
>> files.