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I am rather new to Max and have been pretty successful so far, however I am now trying to branch out a bit.

-Read a XML file (currently I am using the 'text' object)

-Pass the files contents as a string to a 'js' object (I have been trying messages and using 'prepend' to add a function to the beginning..)

note: the bang message is received and works

autowatch = 1; // allow Max to watch for changes.

post("JS is working n"); // includes new line char

What I am trying to do is:
-Read a XML file (currently I am using the 'text' object)
-Pass the files contents as a string to a 'js' object (I have been trying messages and using 'prepend' to add a function to the beginning..)
note: the bang message is received and works

my JS test script:
===================================

function bang(){
post("JS is working n"); // includes new line char
}

function msg_string(stringArg){
post("your string" + stringArg);
post(); // create new line
}

how-to-read-xml-file-and-pass-to-js-object

unless you have some explicit reason to process the XML file in JS, you could use the XML processing tools which I created for Max. The 

 objects work with MXJ and they implement a complete W3C-compliant DOM and SAX parser. There's also a native object called 

 which is not 100% W3C-compliant (mainly because it ignores DOCTYPE declarations), but is very fast. They are part of my library which you can get for free from 

unless you have some explicit reason to process the XML file in JS, you could use the XML processing tools which I created for Max. The [sadam.dom] and [sadam.sax] objects work with MXJ and they implement a complete W3C-compliant DOM and SAX parser. There's also a native object called [sadam.rapidXML] which is not 100% W3C-compliant (mainly because it ignores DOCTYPE declarations), but is very fast. They are part of my library which you can get for free from http://www.sadam.hu/software .

I have infact looked at your tools, and they seem to be very good.

The one thing that turned me away was the non-commercial license. Although I am very far away from a commercial product (just starting) that is my goal, therefore I do not want to build upon a component that is not available for this purpose.

Thanks, Adam
I have infact looked at your tools, and they seem to be very good.
The one thing that turned me away was the non-commercial license. Although I am very far away from a commercial product (just starting) that is my goal, therefore I do not want to build upon a component that is not available for this purpose.
Do you offer a commercial version?


I've sent you a message regarding the possibilities of a commercial version.

Have been trying to do the same thing with the [js] object. Tried several libraries with no luck, but did find a workaround:

1. Use aka.shell to convert the xml file to a JSON file using this python script: 

 - (note you'll need to change the json 'import' statement to: import json as simplejson, optparse, sys, os) and the actual command line syntax is: xml2json.py -t xml2json file.xml > file.json. Or you can use any other command line xml to json converter.

2. Then read in the JSON file with the [js] object using the patch from Peter Nyoeber (near the bottom of the following post):

https://cycling74.com/forums/sharing-is-fun-example-write-and-read-json-in-javascript

You can then access all the data using JSON format inside the [js] object, which is about a thousand times easier than parsing xml anyway.

Note: If you're using http: requests to get xml data via [jit.uldl] - you can write it out to an xml file using [jit.textfile]. See the CNMAT weather report example. Or let me know and I can post an example.

1. Use aka.shell to convert the xml file to a JSON file using this python script: https://github.com/hay/xml2json - (note you'll need to change the json 'import' statement to: import json as simplejson, optparse, sys, os) and the actual command line syntax is: xml2json.py -t xml2json file.xml > file.json.  Or you can use any other command line xml to json converter.

2. Then read in the JSON file with the [js] object using the patch from Peter Nyoeber (near the bottom of the following post):
https://cycling74.com/forums/sharing-is-fun-example-write-and-read-json-in-javascript

How to read XML file and pass to JS object