Name
XML Class — DOM-based support for XML-structured data
Availability
Flash 5
Constructor
new XML( ) new XML(source)
Arguments
- source
An optional string containing well-formed XML (or HTML) data to be parsed into an
XML
object hierarchy.
Properties
- attributes
An object whose properties store element attributes.
- childNodes
An array of references to a node’s children.
- contentType
The MIME content type to be transmitted to servers.
- docTypeDecl
The document’s
DOCTYPE
tag.
- firstChild
A reference to the first descendant of a node.
- ignoreWhite
Determines whether to ignore whitespace nodes during XML parsing.
- lastChild
A reference to the last descendant of a node.
- loaded
Status of a
load( )
orsendAndLoad( )
operation.
- nextSibling
A reference to the node after this node in the current level of the object hierarchy.
- nodeName
The name of the current node.
- nodeType
The type of the current node.
- nodeValue
The value of the current node.
- parentNode
A reference to the immediate ancestor of a node.
- previousSibling
A reference to the node before this node in the current level of the object hierarchy.
- status
Error code describing the result of parsing XML source into an object hierarchy.
- xmlDecl
The document’s XML declaration tag.
Methods
- appendChild( )
Add a new child node to a node.
- cloneNode( )
Create a copy of a node.
- createElement( )
Create a new element node.
- createTextNode( )
Create a new text node.
- hasChildNodes( )
Check if a node has any descendants.
- insertBefore( )
Add a sibling node before a node.
- load( )
Import XML source code from an ...
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