[pde-ui-dev] Extracting information from plugin.xml

[Rajeev Sikka <sikkar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have a requirement where I need to
extract information from thr plugin.xml corresponding to a plugin project
thats still being developed i.e. a plugin thats in the workspace and has
NOT been deployed yet.

The situation is similar to the Hello
World plugin. When you create the HelloWorld plugin the user provides the
name and location of the action class. Here is a snippet of the plugin.xml:

<action
   label="&amp;Sample
Action"
   icon="icons/sample.gif"
   class="hello.actions.SampleAction"
   tooltip="Hello,
Eclipse world"
   menubarPath="sampleMenu/sampleGroup"
   toolbarPath="sampleGroup"
   id="hello.actions.SampleAction">
</action>

I want to extract the string corresponding
to the class tag i.e. "hello.actions.SampleAction" in this case.

Are there any public (or internal) APIs
in the PDE that can be used to do this (or is there any alternate way to
do this) ?

Thanks,
Rajeev