User Guide

214 Server-Side ActionScript Language Reference
XML.status
Availability
Flash Media Server 2.
Usage
my_xml.status
Description
Property; automatically sets and returns a numeric value that indicates whether an XML
document was successfully parsed into an XML object. The following list contains the
numeric status codes with descriptions:
■ 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.
Example
The following example loads an XML packet into a SWF file. A status message indicates
whether the XML loads and parses successfully. Add the following ActionScript to your FLA
or AS file:
var my_xml = new XML();
my_xml.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
if (my_xml.status == 0) {
trace("XML was loaded and parsed successfully");
} else {
trace("XML was loaded successfully, but was unable to be parsed.");
}
var errorMessage;
switch (my_xml.status) {
case 0 :
errorMessage = "No error; parse was completed successfully.";
break;
case -2 :