NAME

       mplist_deserialize - Generate a property list by deserializing an M-text.

SYNOPSIS

       MPlist * mplist_deserialize (MText * mt)

DESCRIPTION

       Generate a property list by deserializing an M-text. The mplist_deserialize() function
       parses M-text mt and returns a property list.

       The syntax of mt is as follows.

       MT ::= '(' ELEMENT * ')'

       ELEMENT ::= SYMBOL | INTEGER | M-TEXT | PLIST

       SYMBOL ::= ascii-character-sequence

       INTEGER ::= '-' ? [ '0' | .. | '9' ]+ | '0x' [ '0' | .. | '9' | 'A' | .. | 'F' | 'a' | ..
       | 'f' ]+

       M-TEXT ::= ''' character-sequence '''

       Each alternatives of ELEMENT is assigned one of these keys: Msymbol, Minteger, Mtext,
       Mplist

       In an ascii-character-sequence, a backslash (\) is used as the escape character, which
       means that, for instance, abc\ def produces a symbol whose name is of length seven with
       the fourth character being a space.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2001 Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA)
       Copyright (C) 2001-2011 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
       (AIST)
       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of
       the GNU Free Documentation License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html>.