A method identified as deprecated has been superseded and may become unsupported in the future.
Creates a data object, serializes aPropertyList into it, and returns the data object. (Deprecated in Mac OS X v10.2.)
+ (NSData *)serializePropertyList:(id)aPropertyList
 aPropertyList must be a kind of NSData, NSString, NSArray, or NSDictionary object.
NSSerialization.h
Serializes the property list aPropertyList into the mutable data object mdata. (Deprecated in Mac OS X v10.2.)
+ (void)serializePropertyList:(id)aPropertyList intoData:(NSMutableData *)mdata
 aPropertyList must be a kind of NSData, NSString, NSArray, or NSDictionary object. The property list is appended to mdata.
NSSerialization.h
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