User Guide

1050 Chapter 2: ActionScript Language Reference

XML.send()

Availability

Flash Player 5.

Usage

my_xml.send(url:String, [window:String]) : Void

Parameters

url

String; the destination URL for the specified XML object.

window String; the browser window to show data that the server returns:

• _self specifies the current frame in the current window.

• _blank specifies a new window.

• _parent specifies the parent of the current frame.

• _top specifies the top-level frame in the current window.

This parameter is optional; if you do not specify a

window parameter, it is the same as

specifying

_self.

Returns

Nothing.

Description

Method; encodes the specified XML object into an XML document, and sends it to the specified

URL using the

POST method in a browser. The Flash test environment only uses the GET method.

Example

The following example defines an XML packet and sets the content type for the XML object. The

data is then sent to a server and shows a result in a browser window.

var my_xml:XML = new XML("<highscore><name>Ernie</name>

<score>13045</score></highscore>");

my_xml.contentType = "text/xml";

my_xml.send("http://www.flash-mx.com/mm/highscore.cfm", "_blank");

Press F12 to test this example in a browser.