Comments on: Turning off mDSNResponder http://raffy.ch/blog/2007/08/07/turning-off-mdsnresponder/ Log visualization and log management as seen by Raffael Marty Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:54:16 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Raffael Marty http://raffy.ch/blog/2007/08/07/turning-off-mdsnresponder/comment-page-1/#comment-7055 Raffael Marty Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:54:17 +0000 http://raffy.ch/blog/2007/08/07/turning-off-mdsnresponder/#comment-7055 I actually just realized that turning off my mDNSResponder breaks printing ;( Maybe I'll have to figure out how to use another protocol for printing. Not sure if that is supported by my IT team. I actually just realized that turning off my mDNSResponder breaks printing ;( Maybe I’ll have to figure out how to use another protocol for printing. Not sure if that is supported by my IT team.

]]> By: Diego http://raffy.ch/blog/2007/08/07/turning-off-mdsnresponder/comment-page-1/#comment-7020 Diego Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:39:35 +0000 http://raffy.ch/blog/2007/08/07/turning-off-mdsnresponder/#comment-7020 Hey Raffy, The XML you saw is Apple's "property list" format, more commonly known as plist. It's awful as XML, but it really was designed as an object serialization format, and not as proper XML. Almost every single preferences/properties/configuration file in MacOSX is in that format. You can use the "Property List Editor" application (in Applications/Utilities) to edit them. Some plist files are in a binary representation, which can be converted to the XML one using the plutil command. There's an XSL transformation you can use to convert plist files to proper XML here: http://www.xmldatabases.org/WK/blog/1086?t=item Hey Raffy,

The XML you saw is Apple’s “property list” format, more commonly known as plist. It’s awful as XML, but it really was designed as an object serialization format, and not as proper XML. Almost every single preferences/properties/configuration file in MacOSX is in that format. You can use the “Property List Editor” application (in Applications/Utilities) to edit them. Some plist files are in a binary representation, which can be converted to the XML one using the plutil command.

There’s an XSL transformation you can use to convert plist files to proper XML here: http://www.xmldatabases.org/WK/blog/1086?t=item

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