ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

XML.previousSibling Property

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Usage

Note that in Flash 6, a carriage return in an attribute value causes a parsing error of status

–8 (attribute not terminated). For loaded XML, offending returns can be replaced manu-

ally inside the onData() handler.

Example

We can use parseXML() as a means of replacing the current object hierarchy in an XML

object with a new hierarchy based on internally composed XML source code (for example,

some user input). In the following example, we create a simple XML message by combining

markup with input from text fields named

username_txt and content_txt:

myDoc = new XML();

myXMLsource = "<MESSAGE><USER>" + username_txt + "</USER><CONTENT>"

+ content_txt + "</CONTENT></MESSAGE>";

myDoc.parseXML(myXMLsource);

See Also

XML.ignoreWhite, XML.load(), XML.nodeValue, XML.onData(), XML.status, XML.toString()

XML.previousSibling Property

a reference to the node before this node

Flash 5

read-only

theNode.previousSibling

Description

The previousSibling property returns a reference to the node object preceding theNode in

the current level of the XML object hierarchy (

theNode can be an XML or XMLnode

instance). If there is no node before

theNode in the current level of the hierarchy, it returns

null.

In the following XML source fragment, the

previousSibling ...