MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-ACTIONSCRIPT 2.0 LANGUAGE Reference page 1285

XML
Object
|
+-XMLNode
|
+-XML
public class XML
extends XMLNode
Use the methods and properties of the XML class to load, parse, send, build, and manipulate
XML document trees.
You must use the constructor
of the XML class.
An XML document is represented in Flash by the XML class. Each element of the hierarchical
document is represented by an XMLNode object.
For information on the following methods and properties, you can see the XMLNode class,
specifically
appendChild()
,
hasChildNodes() insertBefore()
,
nodeValue parentNode
In earlier versions of the ActionScript Language Reference, the previous methods and
properties were documented in the XML class. They are now documented in the XMLNode
class.
The XML and XMLNode objects are modeled after the W3C DOM Level 1
recommendation, which you can find at: http://www.w3.org/tr/1998/REC-DOM-Level-
1-19981001/level-one-core.html. That recommendation specifies a Node interface and a
Document interface. The Document interface inherits from the Node interface, and adds
methods such as
XMLNode objects are designed to divide functionality along similar lines.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 5 - (became a native object in Flash Player 6,
which improved performance significantly).
to create an XML object before calling any method
new XML()
, ,
attributes childNodes
,
lastChild
,
previousSibling
and
createElement()
,
cloneNode()
,
nextSibling
, , and
removeNode()
. In ActionScript, the XML and
createTextNode()
, ,
firstChild
, ,
nodeName nodeType
.
toString()
XML
,
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