Tip: Store lengthy XML snippets in a separate file

Thursday, August 23, 2007 at 3:12 PM

Posted by James Yum, Support Engineer (Google Desktop Team)

You've probably created elements dynamically at one point or another, using view.appendElement():

view.appendElement('foo');

Now, that's fine for small XML strings. For more complicated XML, it's often easier to keep the string in a text file and use gadget.storage.openText() to get the string:

var newXml = gadget.storage.openText('my.xml');
view.appendElement(newXml);

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