User Guide

190 Server-Side ActionScript Language Reference

Example

The following example uses the XML.lastChild property to iterate through the child nodes

of an XMLNode object, starting with the last item in the node’s child list and ending with the

first child of the node’s child list:

// Create a new XML document.

var doc = new XML();

// Create a root node.

var rootNode = doc.createElement("rootNode");

// Create three child nodes.

var oldest = doc.createElement("oldest");

var middle = doc.createElement("middle");

var youngest = doc.createElement("youngest");

// Add the rootNode as the root of the XML document tree.

doc.appendChild(rootNode);

// Add each of the child nodes as children of rootNode.

rootNode.appendChild(oldest);

rootNode.appendChild(middle);

rootNode.appendChild(youngest);

// Use lastChild to iterate through the child nodes of rootNode.

for (var aNode = rootNode.lastChild; aNode != null; aNode =

aNode.previousSibling) {

trace(aNode);

}

output:

NOTE

In Flash Media Server, the output of trace() statements appears in the application log

file and Application inspector.