Parsing and iOS plist file

[mcferren]

Hi there,

I am attempting to use xmldom to parse an iOS plist file that I plan to use for localization purposes in my javascript app. My end result will concatenate key / value tuples from multiple source (plist) files so that I have one master language file for my javascript app. Here is an example of how these source plist files are formatted:

CancelTitle
Cancel
EmailLabel
Email

To do so, I am trying to build a grunt task that will read the source file(s) and interpret it(them) as xml. In my Gruntfile.js, I have this under the grunt.initConfig block:

    translator: {
        options: {
          sourceFile: 'app/config/translations/original.plist'
        }
    }

Down below I register a task with this code:

grunt.registerTask('translate', [
    'translator'
]);

Inside of of the task directory file, I have this code:

module.exports = function (grunt) {

var xmldom = require('xmldom'),
    xpath = require('xpath'),
    _ = require('lodash'),
    ATTRIBUTE_NODE = 2;


grunt.registerMultiTask('translator', 'Updates values in XML files based on XPath queries', function () {

    var options = this.options();
    var sourceFile = options.sourceFile;
    var src =  grunt.file.read(sourceFile);
    var domParser = new xmldom.DOMParser();
    var doc = domParser.parseFromString(
            src
            ,'text/xml');
    var dictNode = xmlContent.getElementsByTagName('dict')[0];
    console.log(dictNode);
    ...

I am in the beginning stages of this project now and I am just trying to read the source file and interpret it as xml. After running grunt translate, I am receiving this error in the console:

end tag name: string is not match the current start tagName:dict
@#[line:3225,col:43]

Nothing comes up when I google for the this string however, I was able to spend some time snooping in the source code and found this line inside the sax.js file on line 105:

if(config.tagName != tagName){
errorHandler.fatalError("end tag name: "+tagName+' is not match the current start tagName:'+config.tagName );
}

https://github.com/jindw/xmldom/blob/c033b1907c049ee10a9cc71133925480f03e7134/sax.js

I would be very grateful for any help you could provide on the matter.

All the best,

Ben

[mcferren]

this seems to be what I've been looking for: https://github.com/jacobbudin/plist-parser

apologies for taking up space

hope this helps those who come across this post