Timing and Spacing

I finally have gotten around to packaging up the binaries for the XML parsing plugin. I finished it up two weeks ago but with GDC and then suffering through a cold the week after GDC, I've been too busy sleeping or trying to get caught up at work to get it packaged up and posted.

This plugin lets you load and save XML to and from MEL string variables and files. It's pretty permissive about the XML it will read. There are binaries for Maya 7.0, 8.0 and 8.5. Initially I was going to stop using this with 8.5 and move over to Python, but I find the Python/MEL integration so unwieldy that I use Python far less than I initially thought. So, I may be building a version for 2008 as well. I can probably build versions for earlier versions of Maya. I think I have access to 6.5 and 5.0 but I'll have to see.

Take a look at the documentation page and you can download the binaries from my MELScripts/Plugins page. I'll try to get the source code up in a reasonable time frame, but may be a couple of weeks.

Let me know of any comments, suggestions and bugs. One area I haven't used much is the data items. Pretty much all the XML I work with is all elements and attributes.

Enjoy.