# Parse plist (apple XML propertylist)

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/parse-plist-apple-xml-propertylist/8066>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** data\
**Created:** [December 29, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/parse-plist-apple-xml-propertylist/8066 "2017-12-29T20:04:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![lobingera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lobingera/32/211_2.png) [@lobingera](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lobingera)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/parse-plist-apple-xml-propertylist/8066/1 "2017-12-29T20:04:56Z")

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Might be done by PyCall and plistlib, but i’d prefer a julia-only. Any idea? Or at least a recommendation for XML?

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**Author:** ![rdeits](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rdeits/32/286_2.png) [@rdeits](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rdeits)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/parse-plist-apple-xml-propertylist/8066/2 "2017-12-29T20:24:02Z")

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How about [GitHub - JuliaIO/LightXML.jl: A light-weight Julia package for XML based on libxml2.](https://github.com/JuliaIO/LightXML.jl) ?

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**Author:** ![bicycle1885](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bicycle1885/32/107_2.png) [@bicycle1885](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bicycle1885)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2017, 1:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/parse-plist-apple-xml-propertylist/8066/3 "2017-12-30T13:26:01Z")

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Or [EzXML.jl](https://github.com/bicycle1885/EzXML.jl) (yes, it is my package).

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**Author:** ![Liso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/898d66/32.png) [@Liso](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Liso)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/parse-plist-apple-xml-propertylist/8066/4 "2017-12-30T14:46:54Z")

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And as you link in `readme.md` there is also [https://github.com/JuliaIO/LibExpat.jl](https://github.com/JuliaIO/LibExpat.jl)

BTW I am surprised that python has plistlib in standard library: [doc](https://docs.python.org/3/library/plistlib.html), [source](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/plistlib.py).