ACTIONSCRIPT 3 Developer’s Guide en

ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0 DEVELOPER’S GUIDE
Working with XML
Questions, unanswered
Steve and the flubberblubs
1989
What do you know?
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2006-10-17-08:31
Who do you know?
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2006-10-17-08:35
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2006-10-17-08:44
Notice that this XML document contains other complete XML structures within it (such as the song tags with their
children). It also demonstrates other XML structures such as attributes (tracknumber and length in the song tags),
and tags that contain other tags rather than containing data (such as the tracks tag).
Getting started with XML
If you have little or no experience with XML, here is a brief description of the most common aspects of XML data. XML
data is written in plain-text form, with a specific syntax for organizing the information into a structured format.
Generally, a single set of XML data is known as an XML document. In XML format, data is organized into elements
(which can be single data items or containers for other elements) using a hierarchical structure. Every XML document
has a single element as the top level or main item; inside this root element there may be a single piece of information,
although there are more likely to be other elements, which in turn contain other elements, and so forth. For example,
this XML document contains the information about a music album:
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Each element is distinguished by a set of tags—the element’s name wrapped in angle brackets (less-than and greaterthan
signs). The opening tag, indicating the start of the element, has the element name:
The closing tag, which marks the end of the element, has a forward slash before the element’s name:
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