Comments on: Better documentation for AS3’s XML class (e4x)

By: olicorn

olicorn — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:58:56 +0000

thank you for the tips. Very useful

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:03:36 +0000

Aaargh! My apologies. I don’t know how to insert curly braces into this post.

Here’s a link to the site where I think I learned this if you want to find what I’m talking about. Search the page for “Dynamic XML definitions”.

And here goes one last try to post the code here:
var dynamicValueForNodeName :String = “node”;
var xml:XML = \;
trace(xml.toXMLString());// traces “\”

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:59:45 +0000

Oops, wordpress ate my code. Sorry. Let me see if this works:
var dynamicValueForNodeName :String = "node"; var xml:XML = ; trace(xml.toXMLString());// traces ""

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:57:05 +0000

You can also use curly brackets to dynamically assign XML properties in a more concise way:

var dynamicValueForNodeName :String = “node”;
var xml:XML = ;
trace(xml.toXMLString());// traces “”

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:17:34 +0000

Gregor:

You can enclose it in brackets like this ["fade-in"] and it seems to work. At least for me.

By: jwopitz

jwopitz — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:51:58 +0000

what is the syntax you are using to get at it? I haven’t experienced this problem however I also haven’t had a need to access a node named with a hyphen. I normally use camelCase.

By: Grega

Grega — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:24:46 +0000

I have a question about XML class. I’m trying to acces tag with name “fade-in” . But it’s just not working, becouse of that “-” sign. I also tried with elements(“fade-in”).

Is there any elegant solution for this?

Regards,
Gregor Čepek

By: simon

simon — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:23:18 +0000

forget it.

By: simon

simon — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:22:48 +0000

should read var xml:XML = ( without the spaces… that part got cut off

By: simon

simon — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:21:31 +0000

If you want to use a variable as node name, you can use the {} notation. For attributes, you have to use the [].

//——-

var nodeName:String = “myNodeName”;
var xml:XML =

var attributeName:String = “hello”;
xml.@[attributeName] = “world”;

mx.controls.Alert.show( xml.toXMLString() );

//——-