Can't you just use an XHR to this URI:
file://android_res/xml/config.xml?
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Jesse <purplecabb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> They seem to be in the root iOS, android, and windows phone.
>
> NSString* path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"config" ofType:
> @"xml"];
>
> int id = action.getResources().getIdentifier("config", "xml", action.
> getClass().getPackage().getName());
>
> *StreamResourceInfo streamInfo = Application.GetResourceStream(new
> Uri("config.xml", UriKind.Relative));*
>
>
>
> @purplecabbage
> risingj.com
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> config.xml isn't in the www/ on all platforms.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Jesse <purplecabb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > 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
>> > > >> >
>> > > >>
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>>
