Should your plist ever contain ?

Question

I see 3 occurrences of <string></string> in my plist file. Is this an issue? I started looking into the plist because I'm getting this error:

Icon specified in info.plist not found under the top level app wrapper

So I'm curious what is the point of <string></string> and can I remove all occurrences?

Looks like this might help. Good luck. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10165664/icon-specified-in-info-plist-not-found-under-the-top-level-app-wrapper — koray, May 09 '13 at 15:37

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 09 '13 at 15:41

A plist is just like JSON it can be either a dictionary or an array.

It has values in key value format.

If you have an employee with employeeId, name. In JSON it would be

{
    "EmployeeId": 1011,
    "Name": "Employee Name"
}

Same in plist would be

<dict>
    <key>EmployeeId</key>
    <integer>1011</integer>
    <key>Name</key>
    <string>Employee Name</string>
</dict>

You can see that there is <string>Employee Name</string>. This just means that the value of of key Name is Employee Name and it's type is string. In your case it is just an empty string

Should your plist ever contain ?

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