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 >
