ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

XML.parseXML() Method

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Description

The parentNode property returns a reference to the node object from which theNode

descends in the XML object hierarchy, where theNode can be an XML or XMLnode

instance. If

theNode is the top (root) node of the current hierarchy, parentNode returns null.

In this XML source fragment, the

MESSAGE node is the parentNode of text node “hey”:

<MESSAGE>hey</MESSAGE>

Here, the parentNode of the ROOM node is the HOTEL node:

<HOTEL><ROOM><SIZE>Double</SIZE></ROOM></HOTEL>

See Also

XML.childNodes, XML.firstChild, XML.lastChild, XML.previousSibling

XML.parseXML() Method

parse a string of XML source code

Flash 5

xmlDoc.parseXML(string)

Arguments

string A string of XML source code.

Description

The parseXML() method reads and parses the XML source contained by string, converts

that source into an object hierarchy, and then places the resulting hierarchy into

xmlDoc.

Any previous contents of

xmlDoc are replaced by the new hierarchy. 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). Once parsing is complete, the success of the operation can be

determined via

xmlDoc.status.

To include raw HTML or XML source code in a text node without parsing it, use a

CDATA section ...