Default xml namespace and attributes

[Alasiac]

Hi,

I was trying to use default xml namespaces, but came upon something strange.

I got the following piece of xml:

<animal type="sheep" xmlns="http://blabla">

    <name>josh</name>

    <age>2</age>

</animal>

and the following code

public static var ns:Namespace = new Namespace("http://blabla");

var xml:XML; // xml will be read into this var, not going into details here

public function myfunc():void {

  default xml namespace = ns;

  trace(  xml.animal.@type );

}

now for some reason, the elements are correctly traversed using the default namespace. But the attribute isn't found. After a bit of debugging, I found that I could only retrieve the attribute when using xml.animal.attribute(new QName("", "type")). Am I doing something wrong here? Why isn't the attribute in the same default namespace as the element?

Kind regards,

Jan

[Guest]

The attribute should be in the element's namespace. If I run this snippet on the timeline, it outputs the correct values.

var xml:XML =
<xml>
<animal type="sheep" xmlns="http://blabla">
  <name>josh</name>
  <age>2</age>
</animal>
<animal type="cow" xmlns="http://blabla">
  <name>jim</name>
  <age>2</age>
</animal>
</xml>

var ns:Namespace = new Namespace("http://blabla");
default xml namespace = ns;
trace( xml.animal.@type ); // OUTPUT: sheepcow

[Alasiac]

Hi,

thanks for trying this out. I was kinda stumped that it worked with your example, but then realised I simplified the example a bit too much. I was actually using another way to access the attribute because it had dashes in them, it should have been:

trace( xml.animal.@["type"] );

after some more playing around I found that using animal.@type is ok, as well as animal["@type"], but the one I originally chose animal.@["type"] seems to differ somehow. This does help me a lot, knowing that I can use animal["@type"], but any clue why the other one doesn't work?

trace( xmlTmp.animal.@type ); // OUTPUT: sheepcow
trace( xmlTmp.animal["@type"]); // OUTPUT: sheepcow

trace( xmlTmp.animal.@["type"]); // OUTPUT: nothing?

Regards

[Guest]

Sorry, no ideas.  I've never used the syntax, but according to all documentation I've seen it should work.