ActionScript: The Definitive Guide

Name

XML.ignoreWhite Property — Determines whether to ignore whitespace nodes during XML parsing

Availability

Flash 5 Build 41 or later

Synopsis

XMLdoc.ignoreWhite

Access

Read/write

Description

The ignoreWhite property stores a Boolean that dictates whether to discard text nodes containing only whitespace during the parsing process. The default value is false (don’t throw away whitespace nodes). This is a global setting that applies to an entire XML document, not just a specific node. That is, instances of the XMLnode class do not support ignoreWhite.

Example

To cause a single XML document to discard whitespace nodes during parsing, use:

myXML.ignoreWhite = true;

To cause all XML documents to discard whitespace nodes, use:

XML.prototype.ignoreWhite = true;

The ignoreWhite property should be set before any attempt at parsing XML occurs (typically due to a load( ) or sendAndLoad( ) operation).

See Also

See the examples under the XML Class entry for manual whitespace-stripping code