Re: Parsing XML in shell extension

[Jay Strict <jay strict posteo de>]

On 17.10.2015 22:57, Florian Müllner wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Jay Strict <jay strict posteo de> wrote:
> > const XMLConfigParser = new Lang.Class({
> >     Name: 'XMLConfigParser',
> >     Extends: GLib.MarkupParser,
>
> GMarkupParser is not a GObject, so you cannot inherit from it. In
> general, support for anything below GObject is fairly limited - it
> works for utility functions, types that are boxed by GObject *and*
> provide a contructor-like function, and types that have special
> treatment in gjs to expose it to JS. Neither is the case for
> GMarkupParser, so you cannot use it from an extension (unless you add
> support to gjs first).

Ok, thank you for the explanation (and sorry for the late reply).

I assumed that GMarkupParser is available for gjs as
# g-ir-doc-tool -l gjs /usr/share/gir-1.0/GLib-2.0.gir
does in fact produce a help file with GMarkupParser described in it.

I don't want to be rude, but I must say that the poor documentation of
some of the Gnome projects really annoys me. :(

Kind regards
Jay