iOS Is This A Bad Idea

[zachsilvey]

Is it a bad idea to use a plist file instead of a rss-specific xml file to pull remote data.

plist files are just xml files and I am more familier with parsing data from a plist file than RSS so I don't see a downside.

This file wouldn't be accessed all that often so I don't see a reason to use a database.

 

[dejo]

Not a bad idea at all, potentially. plists allow much more flexibility than tightly-structured RSS files. Of course, you'll need to consider how you are generating the file on the server-side. Probably much more "help" for generating RSS than plist.

 

[zachsilvey]

Thanks, I am going to be dealing with updating the file and I will probably just use the property list editor. If I ever need to have someone else work with it I can write a quick application.