Comments on: Using E4X With XHTML? Watch Your Namespaces!

By: Dave Stewart

Dave Stewart — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:19:21 +0000

Roger, thanks for discussing the aaa issue. This was foxing me for a while.

It seems doubly strange as Flash manages to access the nodes without any further namespace jiggery-pokery. I wish I understood the need for namespacing more fully…

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Actionscript 3 Slideshow with xHTML — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:53:09 +0000

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By: celine

celine — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:43:23 +0000

Hi,

I was trying to use xml namespaces, so in my application I receive an XML file from the server. The file has a namespace, so when I parse the file I need to specify the namespace:
.

I got the following piece of xml:

”

and the following code
”

”

So i want to display the content of the xml (twprojets nodes”) in a tree view, but i don’t know how to includes the namespace”tw:” in the data provider “srv.lastResult.twproject”. can u help me it’s urgent.
sincerly
Celine

By: celine

celine — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:40:43 +0000

Hi,
I was trying to use xml namespaces, so in my application I receive an XML file from the server. The file has a namespace, so when I parse the file I need to specify the namespace:
I got the following piece of xml:
(

)

and the following code
(

)

By: celine

celine — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:37:56 +0000

Hi,

I was trying to use xml namespaces, so in my application I receive an XML file from the server. The file has a namespace, so when I parse the file I need to specify the namespace:
.

I got the following piece of xml:

and the following code

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By: Derek Basch

Derek Basch — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:25:22 +0000

Thanks,

This was invaluable. I was stuck on this for hours.

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By: Philip Bulley

Philip Bulley — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:33:30 +0000

Great post… figured I had a namespace issue, but had no idea of how to reference it! Thanks mate.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:27:29 +0000

This is invaluable. Thank you for publishing this.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:52:57 +0000

Don’t forget:
if (myXhtmlDocument.namespace(“”) != undefined){
default xml namespace = myXhtmlDocument.namespace(“”);
}

If your xml has a default namespace it’ll set it as your default, so your calls won’t need the namespace prepended

By: dispatchEvent » AS3 E4X Rundown

dispatchEvent » AS3 E4X Rundown — Tue, 22 May 2007 01:07:43 +0000

[...] I can write more about namespaces in a future revision, but for now check out the good discussion started in my previous post, Using E4X? Watch Your Namespaces. [...]

By: Peter Hall

Peter Hall — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:50:11 +0000

It’s not really that toXMLString() is limited. e4x works on a canonicalised data model. There are several ways to achieve the same XML object from different source strings – using default vs explicit namespaces is just one example. Canonicalisation makes XML simpler to work with, at the expense of losing how it was originally declared.

By: Roger Braunstein

Roger Braunstein — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:13:37 +0000

No, thank you for making things more interesting! Not to mention, I learned something about XML-ID!
I also think it’s weird that just because the node exists in a namespace, it’s not considered as declaring that namespace…

By: Claus Wahlers

Claus Wahlers — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:09:21 +0000

Yeah something like that, i don’t know. What worries me more though is the buggy (?) behavior of namespaceDeclarations() in that case.

Sorry btw for hijacking your post ;)