User Guide

726 ActionScript classes

Usage 1: You can set the ignoreWhite property for individual XML objects, as the following

code shows:

my_xml.ignoreWhite = true;

Usage 2: You can set the default ignoreWhite property for XML objects, as the following

code shows:

XML.prototype.ignoreWhite = true;

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 2.0

Example

The following example loads an XML file with a text node that contains only white space; the

foyer tag comprises fourteen space characters. To run this example, create a text file named

flooring.xml, and copy the following tags into it:

<house>

<kitchen> ceramic tile </kitchen>

<bathroom>linoleum</bathroom>

</house>

Create a new Flash document named flooring.fla and save it to the same directory as the XML

file. Place the following code into the main Timeline:

// create a new XML object

var flooring:XML = new XML();

// set the ignoreWhite property to true (default value is false)

flooring.ignoreWhite = true;

// After loading is complete, trace the XML object

flooring.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {

trace(flooring);

}

// load the XML into the flooring object

flooring.load("flooring.xml");

// output (line breaks added for clarity):

<house>

<kitchen> ceramic tile </kitchen>

<bathroom>linoleum</bathroom>

</house>

If you then change the setting of flooring.ignoreWhite to false, or simply remove that

line of code entirely, the fourteen space characters in the

foyer tag will be preserved:

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