[jira] [Created] (CB-10832) Allow XML tags to make arbitrary edits to other XML files after prepare in config.xml

["Paul Hickman (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Paul Hickman created CB-10832:
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             Summary: Allow XML tags to make arbitrary edits to other XML files after prepare in config.xml
                 Key: CB-10832
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10832
             Project: Apache Cordova
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: CLI
         Environment: All
            Reporter: Paul Hickman


MSBuild has a facility to update the value of an XML tag in any XML file during the build process through an XMLUpdate task, which is configured by any xmlupdate element such as:

<XmlUpdate Prefix="n"
    Namespace="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" 
    XPath="/n:Project/n:PropertyGroup/n:TestUpdate"
    XmlFileName="Subversion.proj"
    Value="Test from $(MSBuildProjectFile)"/>

It also has an optional delete attribute to specify the element/attribute is deleted, but the MSBuild implementation lacks an Add attribute which should be present for a complete implementation.

I propose adding the same function to Cordova's prepare function. <xmlupdate> tags could be placed directly in the root node of the configuration, or more likely in a <platform> section.

This would allow configuration of all items in the various platform's manifest files to be created/updated/deleted for the cases where there is not specialized code in "cordova prepare" to populate them.

Source code for the MSBuild implementation is here:

https://github.com/loresoft/msbuildtasks/blob/master/Source/MSBuild.Community.Tasks/XmlUpdate.cs




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