ACTIONSCRIPT 3 Developer’s Guide en

ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0 DEVELOPER’S GUIDE
Working with XML
copy()
length()
valueOf()
For details on these methods, see the ActionScript 3.0 Reference for the Adobe Flash Platform.
For an XMLList object that contains exactly one XML element, you can use all properties and methods of the XML
class, because an XMLList with one XML element is treated the same as an XML object. For example, in the following
code, because doc.div is an XMLList object containing one element, you can use the appendChild() method from
the XML class:
var doc:XML =
Hello
;
doc.div.appendChild(World);
For a list of XML properties and methods, see “XML objects” on page 99.
Initializing XML variables
Flash Player 9 and later, Adobe AIR 1.0 and later
You can assign an XML literal to an XML object, as follows:
var myXML:XML =
burger
3.95
fries
1.45
As the following snippet shows, you can also use the new constructor to create an instance of an XML object from a
string that contains XML data:
var str:String = "burger"
+ "3.95";
var myXML:XML = new XML(str);
If the XML data in the string is not well formed (for example, if a closing tag is missing), you will see a run-time error.
You can also pass data by reference (from other variables) into an XML object, as the following example shows:
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