ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

XML.loaded Property

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In the following XML source fragment, the lastChild of the MESSAGE node is the CONTENT

node:

<MESSAGE><USER>gray</USER><CONTENT>hi</CONTENT></MESSAGE>

Example

// Create a new XML document

myDoc = new XML('<MESSAGE><USER>gray</USER><CONTENT>hi</CONTENT></MESSAGE>');

// Sets msg to "hi" because myDoc's firstChild

// is MESSAGE; MESSAGE's lastChild is CONTENT; and CONTENT's firstChild

// is the text node with the value "hi"

msg = myDoc.firstChild.lastChild.firstChild.nodeValue

See Also

XML.childNodes, XML.firstChild, XML.nextSibling, XML.previousSibling

XML.load() Method

import XML source code from an external document

Flash 5; security restrictions added in Flash 6

xmlDoc.load(url)

Arguments

url A string specifying the location of the XML document to load.

Description

The load() method imports an external XML document, parses it, converts it into an XML

object hierarchy, and places that hierarchy into

xmlDoc. Any previous contents of xmlDoc are

replaced by the newly loaded XML content. 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).

Before accessing content imported with load(), we must be sure the load and parsing opera-

tions are complete. To do so, either ...