Hello,

I'm a newbie to Cocoa, just develop some little apps with C/C++ on Windows. I want to make a "simple" app on Cocoa. When the user specific XML file, the file nodes are represented "enduser viewable".

I made an interface with some NSTextField. I made a subclass of NSDocument called "XMLFile" so i got "XMLFile.h" and "XMLFile.m" in my Xcode project.

In the plist of my app i setup a new "Document Types": XML File - extensions: xml - role: view - class: XMLFile - store type: XML

Here is my "XMLFile.h":

#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>


@interface FichierXML : NSDocument {

}

        IBOutlet NSTextField *dateField;
        IBOutlet NSTextField *titleField;
        IBOutlet NSTextField *descField;
        IBOutlet NSTextField *vidfileField;
        IBOutlet NSTextField *imgfileField;
        IBOutlet NSObjectController *object;
        NSUInteger *mask;

@end

And here is my "XMLFile.m":

#import "XMLFile.h"

@implementation XMLFile

- (BOOL)readFromData:(NSData *)datafile ofType:(NSString *)typeName error:(NSError **)outerror

{

    NSMutableArray* ReportCreationDate = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithCapacity:10];
    NSMutableArray* ReportTitle = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithCapacity:10];
    NSMutableArray* ReportDescription = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithCapacity:10];
    NSMutableArray* VideoPath = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithCapacity:10];
    NSMutableArray* VideoThumbnailImageName = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithCapacity:10];

    NSXMLDocument* doc = [[NSXMLDocument alloc] initWithData:datafile options:mask error:outerror];
    NSXMLElement* root  = [doc rootElement];
    NSArray* dateElement = [root nodesForXPath:@"//Report/ReportCreationDate" error:nil];
    for(NSXMLElement* xmlElement in dateElement)
        [dateElement setStringValue:[xmlElement stringValue]];
    NSArray* titleElement = [root nodesForXPath:@"//Report/ReportTitle" error:nil];
    for(NSXMLElement* xmlElement in titleElement)
        [titleField setStringValue:[xmlElement stringValue]];
    NSArray* descElement = [root nodesForXPath:@"//Report/ReportDescription" error:nil];
    for(NSXMLElement* xmlElement in descElement)
        [descField setStringValue:[xmlElement stringValue]];
    NSArray* vidfileElement = [root nodesForXPath:@"//Report/Videos/Video/VideoPath" error:nil];
    for(NSXMLElement* xmlElement in vidfileElement)
        [vidfileField setStringValue:[xmlElement stringValue]];
    NSArray* imgfileElement = [root nodesForXPath:@"//Report/Videos/Video/VideoThumbnailImageName" error:nil];
    for(NSXMLElement* xmlElement in imgfileElement)
        [imgfileField setStringValue:[xmlElement stringValue]];

    [doc release];
    [ReportCreationDate release];
    [ReportTitle release];
    [ReportDescription release];
    [VideoPath release];
    [VideoThumbnailImageName release];

    return YES;
}

@end

So. The user open the XMLFile, and XMLDocument analyse the file to extract nodes' data and send it to the differents NSTextField... But it doesn't work :(

If someone can help me... I'm a newbie so don't be too rude if I made big mistakes :)

Miskia.