Parsing AS3 XML objects

Question

I am getting an object back from ASP.NET, and when tracing the XML it as follows:

var xml:XML = new XML(event.message.body);
trace(xml);

I get the following output:

<ArrayOfString xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://localhost:49329/">
    <string>One</string>
    <string>Two</string>
    <string>Three</string>
</ArrayOfString>

I am trying to iterate the structure to get the strings extracted, but to no avail. I am using the following code:

for each(var item:Object in xml.children())
{
    MonsterDebugger.trace(this, item.toString());
}

...and I know this is not entirely effective. It works now, but there is a way to get the strings with some syntax using the @ sign.

Can anyone please advise?

Does this have something to do with the namespace? Thanks! – josef.van.niekerk Nov 12 '09 at 13:37 — josef.van.niekerk, Nov 12 '09 at 13:37

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 12 '09 at 13:38

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You've pretty much got it. Should be able to write the same loop like so:

for each( var el:XML in xml.string ) {
  trace( el.toString() );
}

Take a look at these e4x docs, these are for Flex, but it all applies because it's just AS3. As you can see the state of documentation on a lot of this stuff is a little flaky :)

answered Nov 12 '09 at 13:38

rfunduk

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That's exactly what's confusing me so much today, when I try this way, like I did most of today, I just get nothing at all? – josef.van.niekerk Nov 12 '09 at 13:53
Ah, yea. Missed the namespace in the `ArrayOfString` :) – rfunduk Nov 12 '09 at 14:50

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 12 '09 at 13:48

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<ArrayOfString xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://localhost:49329/">
    <string>One</string>
    <string>Two</string>
    <string>Three</string>
</ArrayOfString>

You have to take care of the Namespace too:

var ns:Namespace = new Namespace("http://localhost:49329/");
var strings:XMLList = xml.ns::string;
for each(var str:XML in strings)
  trace(str.text());

answered Nov 12 '09 at 13:48

Amarghosh

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just 2 hours? I've wasted more than a day pulling my hair over namespaces ;) – Amarghosh Nov 12 '09 at 14:01

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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You can read my answer to AS3 - Deepest XML Elements By using SimpleXML you can parse your XML in an easy to use manner.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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answered Mar 14 '11 at 15:32

RaamEE

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Parsing AS3 XML objects

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