Flash Player 5 (became a native object in Flash Player 6, which improved performance significantly).
Use the methods and properties of the XML object to load, parse, send, build, and manipulate XML document trees.
You must use the constructor new XML()
to create an instance of the XML object before calling any of the methods of the XML object. See "Constructor for the XML object" later in this section.
Method | Description |
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XML.addRequestHeader() |
Adds or changes HTTP headers for POST operations. |
XML.appendChild() |
Appends a node to the end of the specified object's child list. |
XML.cloneNode() |
Clones the specified node and, optionally, recursively clones all children. |
XML.createElement() |
Creates a new XML element. |
XML.createTextNode() |
Creates a new XML text node. |
XML.getBytesLoaded() |
Returns the number of bytes loaded for the specified XML document. |
XML.getBytesTotal() |
Returns the size of the XML document, in bytes. |
XML.hasChildNodes() |
Returns true if the specified node has child nodes; otherwise, returns false . |
XML.insertBefore() |
Inserts a node in front of an existing node in the specified node's child list. |
XML.load() |
Loads a document (specified by the XML object) from a URL. |
XML.parseXML() |
Parses an XML document into the specified XML object tree. |
XML.removeNode() |
Removes the specified node from its parent. |
XML.send() |
Sends the specified XML object to a URL. |
XML.sendAndLoad() |
Sends the specified XML object to a URL and loads the server response into another XML object. |
XML.toString() |
Converts the specified node and any children to XML text. |
Property | Description |
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XML.contentType |
Indicates the MIME type transmitted to the server. |
XML.docTypeDecl |
Sets and returns information about an XML document's DOCTYPE declaration. |
XML.firstChild |
References the first child in the list for the specified node. |
XML.ignoreWhite |
When set to true , text nodes that contain only white space are discarded during the parsing process. |
XML.lastChild |
References the last child in the list for the specified node. |
XML.loaded |
Checks if the specified XML object has loaded. |
XML.nextSibling |
References the next sibling in the parent node's child list. |
XML.nodeName |
The tag name of an XML element. |
XML.nodeType |
The type of the specified node (XML element or text node). |
XML.nodeValue |
The text of the specified node if the node is a text node. |
XML.parentNode |
References the parent node of the specified node. |
XML.previousSibling |
References the previous sibling in the parent node's child list. |
XML.status |
A numeric status code indicating the success or failure of an XML document parsing operation. |
XML.xmlDecl |
Specifies information about a document's XML declaration. |
Method | Description |
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XML.attributes |
Returns an associative array containing all of the attributes of the specified node. |
XML.childNodes |
Returns an array containing references to the child nodes of the specified node. |
Event handler | Description |
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XML.onData |
A callback function that is invoked when XML text has been completely downloaded from the server, or when an error occurs downloading XML text from a server. |
XML.onLoad() |
A callback function for load and sendAndLoad . |
Flash Player 5.
new XML([source]
)
source
The XML text parsed to create the new XML object.
Nothing.
Constructor; creates a new XML object. You must use the constructor method to create an instance of the XML object before calling any of the XML object methods.
Note: The createElement
and createTextNode
methods are the "constructor" methods for creating the elements and text nodes in an XML document tree.
Usage 1: The following example creates an new, empty XML object.
my_xml = new XML();
Usage 2: The following example creates an XML object by parsing the XML text specified in the source
parameter, and populates the newly created XML object with the resulting XML document tree.
anyOtherXML = new XML("<state>California<city>san francisco</city></state>");