ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

XML.contentType Property

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appendChild() or insertBefore(). The following example clones the first paragraph of a

document to make a sibling paragraph with the same structure:

// Create a new document

myDoc = new XML('<P>paragraph 1</P>');

// Make a clone of the first paragraph

newP = myDoc.firstChild.cloneNode(true);

// Customize the clone

newP.firstChild.nodeValue = "paragraph 2";

// Add the clone into the document

myDoc.appendChild(newP);

trace(myDoc); // Displays: "<P>paragraph 1</P><P>paragraph 2</P>"

Note that the text in an element is stored in a separate child node of that element, so we

must set

deep to true to preserve an element’s text content in a clone operation. Remember

that cloneNode() does not insert the element it returns into the node’s hierarchy—we must

do that ourselves using appendChild() or insertBefore().

See Also

XML.appendChild(), XML.createElement(), XML.createTextNode(), XML.insertBefore()

XML.contentType Property

MIME content type for XML data sent via XML.send() and XML.sendAndLoad()

Flash 5.0.41.0

read/write

xmlDoc.contentType

Description

The contentType property is the MIME type that is sent to a server when XML.send() or

XML.sendAndLoad() is invoked. It defaults to

"application/x-www-form-urlencoded", but

that MIME type is used