parsing an XML file in gnome shell extension

Question

It looks like there is no way to parse an XML file in the actual gnome shell tool extension.

This means you can not parse svg.

Any workaround ?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 17 '14 at 15:14

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partially solved with E4X, to parse SVG I had to setup default xml namespace.

default xml namespace = new Namespace('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg');

answered Jun 17 '14 at 15:14

sancelot

I would like to parse xml files using gnome extension system and your answer is not complete IMO. Any news about a XML parser ? I read about E4X but no documentation found. Plus, i read than libxml2 is outdated. – Erwan Douaille Dec 01 '15 at 12:33
I made my application differently, in order to remove this need . And finally left gnome for KDE plasma, because their gnome shell extension api was changing everything time. With KDE, I managed to do in few days what I was not able to do in months with gnome. you will have documentations and community help in KDE , that you will not find in gnome community. In Kde you will write a kde plasmoid and being able to parse xml. – sancelot Dec 01 '15 at 16:01
Nice to read, but i can't move to KDE. You are right, Gnome is changing API and all 2011 GJS documentation is outdated. But now, **you** have the ability to contribute to the gnome documentation by answering your question. Stackoverflow is a kind of documentation. Please can you put an answer to your question ? Thanks in advance. – Erwan Douaille Dec 02 '15 at 09:37

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