Is there an "XMLLib" Script Library?

AppleScript
#1

Is there a replacement for XMLLib OSAX that will work in Catalina?

(prompted by Shane Stanley’s release of RegexAndStuffLib Script Library)

#2

Short answer, none that I know of. One of the issues is that it covers so much ground.

But you can do quite a lot with ASObjC, and it’s pretty fast if you can work with Xpath. There are some examples of parsing XML using ASObjC in this forum.

#3

I’ve created the Satimage OSAX app which hosts the XMLLib scripting addition along with the other Satimage OSAXen. See this post:

It’s not been notarized yet so may not run on Catalina but that is easily solved before Catalina ships.

#4

It might be a good time to remove sandboxing, too.

#5

Thanks, Mark. I’ve been using SatimageOSAX in Mojave, but had the impression it wouldn’t be compatible with Catalina. So I’ll continue using SatimageOSAX in Catalina (after it’s notarized).

#6

I’ve just posted notarized versions of SatimageOSAX and LNSOSAX to support Catalina beta 4 and later.

#7

Mark, do you know if the underlying Satimage.osax is fully 64-bit? My impression is that it, or parts of it, are 32-bit.

Or does your app fix that?

#8

I’ve no idea. The SatimageOSAX app I created provides a signed and notarized host to load and execute the scripting additions. This satisfies the elevated security restrictions imposed by Mojave and Catalina.

If some of the scripting additions are 32-bit then they will fail to load and attempts to invoke them via the SatimageOSAX app will result in Event Not Handled errors.

I cannot correct this problem. The Satimage scripting additions need to be recompiled from source with a modern version of Xcode by the Satimage folks. Given that they have been silent for a long time I think its safe to assume that this isn’t going to happen.

#9

FWIW, the navchoose related commands aren’t 64-bit. (Not that they’re a great loss, although some people were fans of the ability to choose files and folders in the one dialog.)

#10

Also FWIW, from testing, the Satimage and XMLLib modules of both non-notarized and notarized versions of SatimageOSAX work in the current beta (b4) of Catalina.