XML in Illustrator javascript

hi,
Is there a way to read in XML data in Illustrator Javascript?
thanks,
paul

No all the app guides are specific to the app's DOM they contain nothing of JavaScript base/core syntax it's just expected to have gotten that elsewhere the Extended features of the Toolkit have a guide of there own… You should use this in addition to any suite app you are scripting… You also have the OMV object model veiwer… Under help from the toolkit… It should be installed as part of the suite but you can get it from the dev centre if not…

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<xsl:template match="Hotels/RoomNos">
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</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
======================================================

Hi
This is not the forum for this type of question ...sorry. Try the XMLDB forum, XML DB
Tim

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