ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

XML.docTypeDecl Property

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and insert a new P element into a document, and then we give that P element a text-node

child:

myDoc = new XML();

newP = myDoc.createElement("P");

myDoc.appendChild(newP);

newText = myDoc.createTextNode("This is the first paragraph");

myDoc.firstChild.appendChild(newText);

trace(myDoc); // Displays: "<P>This is the first paragraph</P>"

Normally, text nodes are stored as the children of element nodes, which are created using

createElement().

The createTextNode() method converts the characters <, >, &, ', and " according to the

rules of entity conversion discussed under XML.parseXML().

See Also

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

parseXML()

XML.docTypeDecl Property

the document’s DOCTYPE tag

Flash 5

read/write

xmlDoc.docTypeDecl

Description

The docTypeDecl string property specifies the DOCTYPE tag of xmlDoc, if any exists. Other-

wise,

docTypeDecl is undefined. The specified xmlDoc must be the top-level node in an XML

object hierarchy (i.e., an instance of the XML class, not the XMLnode class).

An XML document’s

DOCTYPE specifies the name and location of the document type declara-

tion (DTD) used to validate the document. ActionScript does not perform validation of

XML documents; it merely parses ...