[gdal-dev] Reading MXD files

[Benjamin Welton]

  Can you do that with ArcGIS 9.3? i was under the impression from the 
doc's/forums that it's only available in the arcpy package in 10.

Ben


On 9/4/2010 5:44 PM, Paolo Corti wrote:
>>     Im wondering if there is any way to read MXD files in ether gdal or some other python based extension. I'm not looking for the raster data for the files only the filename/SDE name of the layer and the name of the layer in the MXD file. Is there any easy way to pull this information out of the MXD?
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> I think your only option is to use the ArcGis Python library, but you
> need a license for doing so
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> Paolo