User Guide

1048 Chapter 2: ActionScript Language Reference

XML.previousSibling

Availability

Flash Player 5.

Usage

my_xml.previousSibling:XMLNode

Description

Read-only property; an XMLNode value that references the previous sibling in the parent node’s

child list. The property has a value of

null if the node does not have a previous sibling node. This

property cannot be used to manipulate child nodes; use the XML.appendChild(),

XML.insertBefore(), and XML.removeNode() methods to manipulate child nodes.

Example

The following example is an excerpt from the example for the XML.lastChild property, and shows

how you can use the

XML.previousSibling property to loop through an XML node’s child

nodes:

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

aNode.previousSibling) {

trace(aNode);

}