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ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0 DEVELOPER’S GUIDE
HTTP communications
}
{
result += xmlToString( rootNode.firstElementChild, indent + " " );
}
if( rootNode.nextElementSibling )
{
result += indent + "\n";
result += xmlToString( rootNode.nextElementSibling, indent );
}
else
{
result += indent +"\n";
}
return result;
Request:
Result:
SOAP web service requests
Flash Player 9 and later, Adobe AIR 1.0 and later
SOAP builds on the general XML-RPC web service concept and provides a richer, albeit more complex, means for
transferring typed data. SOAP web services typically provide a Web Service Description Language file (WSDL) that
specifies the web service calls, data types, and service URL. While ActionScript 3 does not provide direct support for
SOAP, you can construct a SOAP XML message “by hand,” post it to the server, and then parse the results. However,
for anything except the simplest SOAP web service, you can probably save a significant amount of development time
using an existing SOAP library.
The Flex framework includes libraries for accessing SOAP web services. In Flash Builder the library, rpc.swc, is
automatically included in Flex projects, since it is part of the Flex framework. In Flash Professional, you can add the
Flex framework.swc and rpc.swc to the library path of a project and then access the Flex classes with ActionScript.
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Opening a URL in another application
Flash Player 9 and later, Adobe AIR 1.0 and later
You can use the navigateToURL() function to open a URL in a web browser or other application. For content running
in AIR, the navigateToURL() function opens the page in the default system web browser.
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