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Jesse FeilerImplementing iOS and macOS Documents with the Files Apphttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4492-0_2

2. Looking Inside a Document

Jesse Feiler1 
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Plattsburgh, NY, USA
 

In Chapter 1, you learned how to describe and structure a document. You now know that you, as the designer and developer of an app and its documents, control what data is stored, where and how it is stored, and how to identify and reference it.

You can decide that the data will be stored as a sequence of integers or as a single long string, whatever matters to you and the data you will use. In practice, it makes sense to structure the data inside a document if only to be able to access it easily. This chapter shows how to structure the data within a document ...

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