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GumpsterF
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September 28, 2009
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Parsing XML Namespace in as2

  • September 28, 2009
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HI, I am attempting to parse some weather information from the Yahoo weather RSS feed.

This is a typical XML node;

<description>Yahoo! Weather for Palm Springs, CA</description>

I used the typical XML parsing code in as2;

var text1 = this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;

txt1.text = text1;

I was doing pretty good until I reached a node that was formatted thus;

<yweather:forecast day="Mon" date="28 Sep 2009" low="74" high="103" text="Sunny" code="32" />

This text traced a value of undefined.

I have tried to research this and so far all I have been able to find out, is that this is a XML namespace and is very easily handled in as3. Unfortunately I have to use as2.

How do I parse out this information into a dyamic text fields?

Or failing that, where in the literature does adobe expalin how this is done?

Forrest

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Hi,

Try this code:

var xmlname:XML = new XML();

xmlname.ignoreWhite = true;

xmlname.load("sample.xml");

xmlname.onLoad = function(sucess:Boolean){

var xNode = xmlname.firstChild;

var tday = xNode.childNodes[0].attributes.day;

var tdate = xNode.childNodes[0].attributes.date;

trace(tdate);

}

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Anonymous
Correct answer
September 29, 2009

Hi,

Try this code:

var xmlname:XML = new XML();

xmlname.ignoreWhite = true;

xmlname.load("sample.xml");

xmlname.onLoad = function(sucess:Boolean){

var xNode = xmlname.firstChild;

var tday = xNode.childNodes[0].attributes.day;

var tdate = xNode.childNodes[0].attributes.date;

trace(tdate);

}

G
GumpsterFAuthor
Inspiring
September 29, 2009

Yes, that works perfectly!

Thanks Saransoft84.

You also showed me a great way of shortening my as code.

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