[gdal-dev] Reading MXD files

[Lucena, Ivan]

Ben,

There are some interfaces on the ArcObject package that let you not exactly *ready* the MXD but you 
can get some useful information from the document. I believe that you can access the ArcObject COM 
API in ArcGIS 10 or 9 by using the win32com.client.Dispatch() the same way as you can load the 
"esriGeoprocessing.GpDispatch.1". You can use the tools on PythonWin to browse to all the available 
ArcGIS components.

 >>> import win32com.client
 >>> arcobj = win32com.client.Dipath("< What should goes here ? >")

It is only a wild guess, I am not even running Windows now to do a quick test, but I hope it would 
help you.

Ivan

Benjamin Welton wrote:
>  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?
>>>
>>>
>> I think your only option is to use the ArcGis Python library, but you
>> need a license for doing so
>>
>> Paolo
> 
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