Comments on: AS3 E4X Rundown

By: Philip

Philip — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:50:51 +0000

over a year later… back again ;)

By: Mims H Wright

Mims H Wright — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 06:28:08 +0000

Thanks Raf! That’s awesome!

By: Raf

Raf — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:49:00 +0000

Just wanted to let you know that whenever I have to load XML in AS3 I look for this exact page, since I never bother to remember how to do it. Your page has been my crutch for YEARS.

By: uasy

uasy — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:12:58 +0000

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By: Jerome R Westrick

Jerome R Westrick — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:15:45 +0000

The example: thePeople.person[1].age = 80; //sets my age to 80
only seems to udate the age tag, in actuality it create a new age node.

Creating a new node has several side effects that the users should be warned of:
1) any attributes of the age tag are lost.
2) any sub elements of the age tag are lost.
3) any references you have to the age tag still point to the old tag.

This can get real nasty, and I’ve found no work around…

By: steveB

steveB — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:09:19 +0000

Sorry all tags stripped out of last comment- making it nonsense!

How can I change the value of a node, which may either be a text node or contain other nodes?
Typical structure- using curlies instead of angled
(rootnode) (date) today (/date) (/rootnode)
or might be:
(rootnode) (date)(anotherNode att=’keep me’ /) today (/date) (/rootnode)

I can write a new value to rootnode.date = â€˜tomorrowâ€™ but this also destroys
If I try rootNode.date.text()=â€™tomorrowâ€™ I get an error.

I am resorting to searching for the contents of rootNode.date.text() and doing a strong replace, but it is possible that the value may also be elsewhere. Ther must be a better way?

By: steveB

steveB — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:02:22 +0000

How can I change the value of a node, which may either be a text node or contain other nodes?
Typical structure:
today
or might be:
today
I can write a new value to rootnode.date = ‘tomorrow’ but this also destroys
If I try rootNode.date.text()=’tomorrow’ I get an error.

I am resorting to searching for the contents of rootNode.date.text() and doing a strong replace, but it is possible that the value may also be elsewhere. Ther must be a bettre way?

By: Mims H Wright

Mims H Wright — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:48:41 +0000

@Philip and everyone else

Thanks for the great comments. We’re so glad this post has been helpful to everyone.

By: Philip

Philip — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:42:19 +0000

I keep on coming back to this post, year after year, every time I forget a bit of e4x syntax. This is my e4x bible. Please never remove it ;)

By: f0ru0l0rd

f0ru0l0rd — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:22:14 +0000

I’m new to XML and E4X. I want to find ways to implement E4X into AS3. While it was a little above my head, I got most (80%) of it, and I am really grateful to you for that! This is a very good primer for those who know XML already, and even for someone like me who can pick it up real quick! Thank You!

By: Using XML (E4X) inside Actionscript 3

Using XML (E4X) inside Actionscript 3 — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:41:36 +0000

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By: pinacolada

pinacolada — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:15:23 +0000

There is nothing in this article explaining how to read the content of a cdata node. Is it impossible ?

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By: bub

bub — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:10:06 +0000

Hi! Thanks for this article, this is very useful and saved me a headache, glad to find people like you that wants to help us!

By: Web Developer

Web Developer — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:04:22 +0000

“\n”! I see all of the \n issues in the comments; and I wonder if ths actually demonstrates my question. I can not seem to pull CDATA text out of your sample correctly if it contains “\n or \r” — and have the return, new line actually work if the text is used. If I directly enter the same text with Actionscript3 it does work. I have tried {‘\n’}, \\n, etc, nothing works. Any ideas?