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    copied!<p>another fun (and probably really simple) question for you, that I have half worked out and now run into a dead end...</p> <p>I need to build an indexed table using data from a plist which looks something like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"&gt; &lt;plist version="1.0"&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;Categories&lt;/key&gt; &lt;array&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;CategoryName&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;Test Category&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;CategoryID&lt;/key&gt; &lt;integer&gt;10&lt;/integer&gt; &lt;key&gt;Sections&lt;/key&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;A&lt;/key&gt; &lt;array&gt; &lt;string&gt;A Jones&lt;/string&gt; &lt;string&gt;A King&lt;/string&gt; &lt;/array&gt; &lt;key&gt;T&lt;/key&gt; &lt;array&gt; &lt;string&gt;T Jones&lt;/string&gt; &lt;string&gt;T King&lt;/string&gt; &lt;/array&gt; &lt;/dict&gt; &lt;/dict&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;CategoryName&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;Another Test Category&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;CategoryID&lt;/key&gt; &lt;integer&gt;20&lt;/integer&gt; &lt;key&gt;Sections&lt;/key&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;P&lt;/key&gt; &lt;array&gt; &lt;string&gt;P Jones&lt;/string&gt; &lt;string&gt;P King&lt;/string&gt; &lt;/array&gt; &lt;key&gt;S&lt;/key&gt; &lt;array&gt; &lt;string&gt;S Jones&lt;/string&gt; &lt;string&gt;S King&lt;/string&gt; &lt;/array&gt; &lt;/dict&gt; &lt;/dict&gt; &lt;/array&gt; &lt;/dict&gt; </code></pre> <p></p> <p>So, what I need help with is how to get the people in each section depending on the required CategoryID. I think the main problem for me is, how do I determine which CategoryID to pull info out of (ie I know the CategoryID, but how do I relate this to the correct section) and then how do i loop through each section key (a, b, c etc..) when the key is the name of the section (does that make sense?).</p> <p>Any help and thoughts are greatly appreciated! Thanks!</p>
 

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