ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

XML.nodeType Property

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Example

We can use nodeName to check whether the current node has the element name we’re

seeking. For example, here we extract all the content of

H1 tags on the first level of an XML

document (this example also checks for tags named

h1 with a lowercase h):

myDoc = new XML('<H1>first heading</H1><P>content</P>' +

'<H1>second heading</H1><P>content</P>');

for (i = 0; i < myDoc.childNodes.length; i++) {

if (myDoc.childNodes[i].nodeName.toUpperCase() = = "H1") {

trace(myDoc.childNodes[i].firstChild.nodeValue);

}

}

See Also

XML.nodeType, XML.nodeValue

XML.nodeType Property

the type of the current node

Flash 5

read-only

theNode.nodeType

Description

The nodeType is an integer property that returns theNode’s type (theNode can be an XML or

XMLnode instance). Since only two node types are supported by ActionScript—element

nodes and text nodes—

nodeName has only two possible values: 1, if the node is an element

node; and 3, if the node is a text node. These values may seem arbitrary, but actually they

are the appropriate values as stipulated by the DOM. For reference, the other node types in

the DOM are listed in Table R-26.

Table R-26. DOM node types

Node description Node type code

ELEMENT_NODE

*

*

Supported by Flash.

1

ATTRIBUTE_NODE 2

TEXT_NODE

*

3

CDATA_SECTION_NODE ...