Nodetype (Xmlnode.nodetype Property) - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH LITE 2.X ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE Reference

nodeType (XMLNode.nodeType property)

public nodeType :
A value, either 1 for an XML element or 3 for a text node.
nodeType
The is a numeric value from the NodeType enumeration in the W3C DOM Level
nodeType
1 recommendation: www.w3.org/tr/1998/REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001/level-one-
core.html. The following table lists the values:
Integer value Defined constant
1 ELEMENT_NODE
2 ATtrIBUTE_NODE
3 TEXT_NODE
4 CDATA_SECTION_NODE
5 NTITY_REFERENCE_NODE
6 ENTITY_NODE
7 PROCESSING_INStrUCTION_NODE
8 COMMENT_NODE
9 DOCUMENT_NODE
10 DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE
11 DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE
12 NOTATION_NODE
In Flash Player, the built-in XML class only supports 1 (
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 2.0
Example
The following example creates an element node and a text node, and checks the node type
of each:
// create an XML document
var doc:XML = new XML();
// create an XML node using createElement()
var myNode:XMLNode = doc.createElement("rootNode");
// place the new node into the XML tree
doc.appendChild(myNode);
// create an XML text node using createTextNode()
752 ActionScript classes
Number [read-only]
) and 3 (
ELEMENT_NODE
).
TEXT_NODE