Question

I have a dictionary containing the necessary info that needs to be sent to a web service for validation. However I must follow the format provided by the service.

I create the XML structure like

NSData * = [NSPropertyListSerialization dataWithPropertyList:myDictionary options:0 error:0];
NSString *postData [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF*StringEncoding];

When pring postData to the cosole, I have all the information I need wrapped inside a

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
    <plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        my data structure
    </dict>
    </plist>

How can I remove the DOCTYPE declaration, and plist and dict elements?

Answer 1

at that point it will be simpler to do a custom serialization…

for (id key in dictionary)
{
    [someMutableString appendFormat:@"%@ = %@\n",key,[dictionary objectForKey:key]]];
}