IOS: Attribute list Introduction Introduction to property Lists
Essentially, the list of attributes is the way Apple's object data is serialized and deserialized
Attribute list uses several data types to organize data into key and value tables
property lists organize data into named values and lists of values using several object Ty Pes.
These types enable you to produce well-structured data that is easy to transfer, store, and access and that is valid.
These types give you the means to produce data which is meaningfully structured, transportable, storable, and Accessibl E, but still as efficient as possible. The
attribute list is widely used in OS X and iOS applications.
Property lists is frequently used by applications running on both OS X and IOS. The Cocoa and core Foundation programming interfaces of the
Property list enable you to convert hierarchical data constructed from basic object types into standard XML.
The Property-list programming interfaces for Cocoa and Core Foundation allow you to convert hierarchically structured Combinations of these basic types of objects to and from the standard XML.
You can put the XML data to disk and use it to reconstruct the original object.
You can save the XML data to disk and later use it to reconstruct the original objects.