MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004 - ACTIONSCRIPT, Reference Manual

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XML.status
Availability
Flash Player 5.
Usage
my_xml .status
Description
Property; automatically sets and returns a numeric value indicating whether an XML document
was successfully parsed into an XML object. The numeric status codes and a description of each
are listed as follows:
•
0 No error; parse was completed successfully.
•
-2 A CDATA section was not properly terminated.
•
-3 The XML declaration was not properly terminated.
•
-4 The DOCTYPE declaration was not properly terminated.
•
-5 A comment was not properly terminated.
•
-6 An XML element was malformed.
•
-7 Out of memory.
•
-8 An attribute value was not properly terminated.
•
-9 A start-tag was not matched with an end-tag.
•
-10 An end-tag was encountered without a matching start-tag.
XML.toString()
Availability
Flash Player 5.
Usage
my_xml .toString()
Parameters
None.
Returns
A string.
Description
Method; evaluates the specified XML object, constructs a textual representation of the XML
structure including the node, children, and attributes, and returns the result as a string.
For top-level XML objects (those created with the constructor),
XML.toString()
outputs the
document’s XML declaration (stored in
XML.xmlDecl
), followed by the document’s
DOCTYPE
declaration (stored in
XML.docTypeDecl
), followed by the text representation of all XML nodes
in the object. The XML declaration is not output if
XML.xmlDecl
is undefined. The
DOCTYPE
declaration is not output if
XML.docTypeDecl
is undefined.