elm: read file content

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Is there a way to read a file in elm?

I want to have an xml settings file where I will keep different settings and read it with elm (I've seen this parser, but it expects the xml content, not path). I don't want to use ports and these stuff. I need to apply some transformations to this xml because I will have more sets of values (staging and production) and I will need to generate an artefact for each value (I'm using TFS for this).

Possible duplicate of [File Upload in Elm](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35329962/file-upload-in-elm) — rofrol, Dec 29 '16 at 19:46

halfzebra · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-27T14:07:25.310

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As of today (0.18.0), officially Elm does not support File API and other file-related APIs.

You can perform I/O only through WebSockets or over HTTP.

Anything else is covered by ports.

edited Dec 27 '16 at 14:07

answered Dec 27 '16 at 12:43

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Is something planned? Is there a roadmap for this feature? – somenxavier Dec 30 '17 at 23:35

Simon H · Answer 2 · 2017-12-31T06:42:18.550

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This library provides access to the filereader API. It is only on github because, as it uses native code, it cannot be published on elm-package.

However if you want to use it with xml you might be best using ports anyway, because then you could get javascripts xml parsing too, which will otherwise be a challenge in Elm too.

edited Dec 31 '17 at 06:42

answered Dec 27 '16 at 13:06

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