MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH LITE 2.X ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE Reference page 746

Example
The following example shows how to use
nodes:
// create a new XML document
var doc:XML = new XML();
// create a root node
var rootNode:XMLNode = doc.createElement("rootNode");
// create three child nodes
var oldest:XMLNode = doc.createElement("oldest");
var middle:XMLNode = doc.createElement("middle");
var youngest:XMLNode = doc.createElement("youngest");
// add the rootNode as the root of the XML document tree
doc.appendChild(rootNode);
// add each of the child nodes as children of rootNode
rootNode.appendChild(oldest);
rootNode.appendChild(middle);
rootNode.appendChild(youngest);
// use firstChild to iterate through the child nodes of rootNode
for (var aNode:XMLNode = rootNode.firstChild; aNode != null; aNode =
aNode.nextSibling) {
trace(aNode);
}
// output:
// <oldest />
// <middle />
// <youngest />
The following example is from the XML_languagePicker FLA file in the Examples directory
and can be found in the languageXML.onLoad event handler function definition:
// loop through the strings in each language node
// adding each string as a new element in the language array
for (var stringNode:XMLNode = childNode.firstChild; stringNode != null;
stringNode = stringNode.nextSibling, j++) {
masterArray[i][j] = stringNode.firstChild.nodeValue;
}
To view the entire script, see XML_languagePicker.fla in the ActionScript samples folder:
Windows: boot drive\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\Samples and
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Tutorials\Samples\ActionScript
Macintosh: Macintosh HD/Applications/Macromedia Flash 8/Samples and Tutorials/
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Samples/ActionScript
746 ActionScript classes
to loop through a node's child
XML.firstChild