sumanto
9th October 2002 15:11 UTC

XML editing in NSIS
:( I am in bit of a soup and need help.

Is there any simple way of editing XML configuration files in NSIS? :rolleyes:

Also, is there any way to add a task to the scheduled tasks during installation itself using NSIS?

Any help will be very welcome.

Thanks :up:

kichik
9th October 2002 16:26 UTC

Unless someone made an XML plugin and didn't tell us, there is no easy way of editing XML in NSIS.

I will check about that scheduled tasks and get back to you.

sala
24th September 2003 14:56 UTC

Originally posted by kichik
Unless someone made an XML plugin and didn't tell us, there is no easy way of editing XML in NSIS.

I will check about that scheduled tasks and get back to you.

kichik
24th September 2003 15:13 UTC

One was never started as far as I know.

Sumanto, I am sorry about not getting back to you about the scheduled tasks. Here's a link that should help:

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....highlight=task

sala
24th September 2003 15:23 UTC

To edit xml I use gsar by just executing it with command line (but this is realy dirty way!).
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...lease_id=62659

b_avery@yahoo.c
6th April 2004 16:19 UTC

Has a plug in been created yet, for editing XML files?

Joost Verburg
6th April 2004 17:11 UTC

Nope

sealite
16th November 2004 10:31 UTC

Still no plugin ?
XML is going to replace (most of) registry in the near future. Most multi platform application are already using xml for storing configuration.

Joel
16th November 2004 15:04 UTC

I don't promise nothing nor good and stable one, but I'll work with the future plugin called xml.dll for NSIS.

My idea is only read the text between elements...
for example:

<element>nsis</element>
Should return nsis

sealite
16th November 2004 16:06 UTC

Cool but i'll give you one example. I want to modify the path of the templates in Openoffice.org. Here it's a part of the config file.
As you can see it's not very easy to define the structure where to find this.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<oor:component-data xmlns:oor="http://openoffice.org/2001/registry" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" oor:name="Common" oor:package="org.openoffice.Office">
 <node oor:name="Path">
  <node oor:name="Current">
   <prop oor:name="OfficeInstall" oor:type="xs:string">
    <value>C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org1.1.3</value>
   </prop>
   <prop oor:name="Template" oor:type="oor:string-list">
    <value>file:///P:/templates</value>
   </prop>
  </node>
 </node>