Question

When I am creating a simple application for plist shown in below link:

http://iosdevelopertips.com/data-file-management/reading-a-plist-into-an-nsarray.html

When I am debugging it.. I am getting path of my plist file. But when I am using the following statement

// Build the array from the plist  
NSMutableArray *array2 = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:path];

I don’t get any value in array2… What could be the problem?

Answer 1

Here is the final solution that i got for plist….

When u are creating your plist file with first element as Array.. then its XML Contents will be as below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Root</key>
    <array>
        <string>Firecracker</string>
        <string>Lemon Drop</string>
        <string>Mojito</string>
    </array>
</dict>
</plist>

Here you are having unnecessary tag instead of which we should have as your root element must be Array… because u are taking in NSMutableArray object…

so your plist file must be like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <array>
        <string>Firecracker</string>
        <string>Lemon Drop</string>
        <string>Mojito</string>
    </array>
</plist>

i have checked that its working fine….