title: Get extention point contribution as text
body: <p>Is there a way to get the raw XML text which another plugin has contributed to an extension point?</p>
  
  <p>The normal way to access data that is contributed to an extension point is to use <code>IConfigurationElement</code> objects:</p>
  
  <pre><code>IConfigurationElement[] configElems = Platform.getExtensionRegistry()
      .getConfigurationElementsFor(LANGUAGES_EXTENTION_POINT_ID);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I already have JAXB parser for the kind of data that is contributed to this extension point. I'd like to use that one instead of Eclipse's classes.</p>
  
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  <p><strong>EDIT 1:</strong> An alternative would be to use some kind of Eclipse-configuratoin-to-JAXB bridge library. But I don't find any.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT 2:</strong> It's probably possible to find the <code>plugin.xml</code> of the contributing plug-in and read that manually... Probably not a good idea.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT 3:</strong> I think I will do this: Instead of contributing the data directly clients get to give a file name. I then read that file using my old parser.</p>