Hallo!

Yes, well it would be quite nice to have an object that you could pass an xml file to, and it would spit out pd symbols... I don't know how exactly that would work since pd only supports lists - no tree-like structures. Perhaps you could fill one of those new pd structs with the contents of the xml file?

With PDContainer you could read it in map, vector, list, stack, ... (all containers from the C++ STL) - see http://grh.mur.at/software/pdcontainer.html for more info.

I'm simply looking for a nice way to have some configuration files for my system (which will be read by both pd and other software). I will probably just stick with custom formatted text files for now. Though, I'm sure people would appreciate the benefits of xml (ie, you could easily validate it, and easily build other pd patches to save new configurations).

Yes, that was/is also my intention ...

LG Georg

Cheers, -Mike Wozniewski