User Guide

216 Server-Side ActionScript Language Reference

XML.toString()

Availability

Flash Media Server 2.

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), the

XML.toString() method

outputs the document’s XML declaration (stored in the

XML.xmlDecl property), followed by

the document’s

DOCTYPE declaration (stored in the XML.docTypeDecl property), followed by

the text representation of all XML nodes in the object. The XML declaration is not output if

the

XML.xmlDecl property is undefined. The DOCTYPE declaration is not output if the

XML.docTypeDecl property is undefined.

Example

The following example of the XML.toString() method sends <h1>test</h1> to the log file:

var node = new XML("<h1>test</h1>");

trace(node.toString());