This class provides functionality to convert organizations of property list objects (NSArray, NSDictionary, NSData, NSString, and NSNumber) to and from XML or binary data formats.

@interface NSPropertyListSerialization : NSObject
// Class Methods
+ (NSData *)dataFromPropertyList:(id)plist format:(NSPropertyListFormat)format errorDescription:(NSString **)errorString;
+ (BOOL)propertyList:(id)plist isValidForFormat:(NSPropertyListFormat)format;
+ (id)propertyListFromData:(NSData *)data mutabilityOption:(NSPropertyListMutabilityOptions)opt format:(NSPropertyListFormat *)format errorDescription:(NSString **)errorString;