How do I parse an XML file in illustrator plugin?

[panduvittala]

My current task is this: Open xml file from file system (later this will be from a remote service), parse the xml, display content from xml to user. There are further steps after this, but I am stuck at the first step itself. What illustrator plugin sdk APIs allow me to parse xml and create a dom out of it? Thanks in advance.

Version: Illustrator CS 5.1

[A. Patterson · Accepted solution]

The are no XML parsing APIs in the Illustrator SDK. They have an XML-ish suite, but that's for managing a document's metadata, which -- at least through the API -- looks & feels like XML.

If you want to parse & read an XML file, there are lots of other libraries you can use to do so. We use Xerces, which is one of the most widely used XML libraries.

[panduvittala]

Thanks. I was just hoping that I could use one of the suites to parse xml. Looks like i have to start evaluating the libraries now.    

[Toto RoToTO]

You will have to link against third party lib like Xerces for doing that.

I have already completed that successfully. (Mac OS X and Win).

[daitranthanhoa]

I include  xercesc to my plugin, and build ok, but occur error when run at line:

std::auto_ptr<xercesc::XercesDOMParser>

parser( new xercesc::XercesDOMParser() ) ;

Error: Unhandled exception at 0x0f1bb7c0 (InitTestAI.aip) in Illustrator.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.

How can fix this error? thanks.

[btempleton1982]

Did you do the proper initialization steps as laid out in the docs?

Programming Guide

[daitranthanhoa]

thank you.

i miss Initialize.