I need to be able to parse an xml file inside photoshop, using javascript. I tried activex but it didn’t work. How do I go about parsing it. Does javascript itself has an xml parser?
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I need to be able to parse an xml file inside photoshop, using javascript. I tried activex but it didn’t work. How do I go about parsing it. Does javascript itself has an xml parser?
No, JavaScript is a relatively compact language — things like XML parsing, etc in browsers comes from the DOM.
This is part of the reason JSON is becoming increasingly popular for JS developers — it is much simpler, but does much of what developers traditionally use XML for, and has multiple pure JS parser implementations, is actually syntactically compatible with JS (so eval, etc will work — though they’re unsafe if given untrusted content) — and in SpiderMonkey at least JSON is available as part of the base JS implementation.