function readConfig() {
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.addEventListener("load", function () {
var parser = new DOMParser();
var doc = parser.parseFromString(xhr.responseText,
"application/xml");
alert("Description : " +
doc.getElementsByTagName("description").item(0).textContent);
});
xhr.open("get", "../config.xml", true);
xhr.send();
}
@purplecabbage
risingj.com
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> wrote:
> Now that I look a bit deeper, that plugin I only returns <preferences>
> specifically, not the entire contents of config.xml (name is not a
> <preference>).
>
> It also does not currently implement a way to inspect all preferences, just
> has a way to get the value for a specific one.
>
> I do think it would be a good idea to just have one core plugin (perhaps
> extend that one I linked) to include all config file values.
>
> Filed: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6139
>
> -Michal
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> > David already wrote a plugin for this a few months ago for us to use in
> > the test harness:
> >
> https://github.com/apache/cordova-labs/tree/cdvtest/cordova-plugin-appsettings
> >
> > I think he planned on proposing it for core but there was never really a
> > reason for it. I guess now's a good time to get that going.
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Certainly a reasonable thing to want to do, but there's no way currently
> >> short of writing a custom plugin, or a post-prepare hook.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Axel Nennker <ignisvul...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I fear this is a stupid question but I could not find the answer in
> the
> >> > cordova docs or on the net or reading the source (Luke).
> >> >
> >> > As an app developer and cordova user how do I get data from
> config.xml?
> >> >
> >> > We want to add an "about" page to an cordova app and could not find a
> >> > simple javascript way to get to things like author, id, version, name
> or
> >> > description from config.xml.
> >> > Writing a plugin seems to be overkill. Using the file or file-transfer
> >> > plugins is heavy lifting too.
> >> >
> >> > Shouldn't there be a way to write cordova.config.name to get the
> >> contents
> >> > of the name element in config.xml?
> >> >
> >> > Someone added "metadata" to cordova_plugins.js.
> >> > Maybe we could add something similar to cordova.js too?
> >> >
> >> > Does this make sense?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> > Axel
> >> >
> >>
> >
> >
>
