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? 🙄

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 👍

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.

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.

Is there any progress with that xml plugin?

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:

To edit xml I use gsar by just executing it with command line (but this is realy dirty way!).

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

Nope

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.

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

what you thing?
Reading attributes can be pain in the touchi 😁, but ideas can be helpfull...

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😳or="http://openoffice.org/2001/registry" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" oor:name="Common" oor😛ackage="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>