ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

XML.onData() Event Handler

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•IftheNode is an element node, nodeValue is null.

•If

theNode is a text node, nodeValue is the text contained by the node.

To assign new text to an existing text node, we use

nodeValue as follows:

// Create a new XML document

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

// Change the text contained by the H1 tag

myDoc.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue = "My Life Story";

To retrieve the text of a text node, we simply read its nodeValue property:

trace(myDoc.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue);

Note that, in nodeValue, the predefined entities &lt;, &gt;, &amp;, &quot;, and &apos; are

represented as the literal characters <, >, &, ", and '. To obtain the source code for a node,

including uninterpreted entities, use XML.toString(). For more details, see XML.

parseXML().

When a node is used in a string context, Flash uses XML.toString(), not

nodeValue,to

represent its value:

// Force an implicit datatype conversion. Calls toString().

trace(myDoc.firstChild.firstChild);

// Same as:

trace(myDoc.firstChild.firstChild.toString());

See Also

XML.nodeName, XML.nodeType, XML.parseXML(), XML.toString()

XML.onData() Event Handler

executed when external XML source code finishes loading but has not yet been parsed

Flash 5

xmlDoc.onData(src);

Arguments ...