User Guide

XMLList objects 317
The following methods are for working with and determining certain types of XML content:
■ comments()
■ hasComplexContent()
■ hasSimpleContent()
■ nodeKind()
■ processingInstructions()
■ text()
The following methods are for conversion to strings and for formatting XML objects:
■ defaultSettings()
■ setSettings()
■ settings()
■ normalize()
■ toString()
■ toXMLString()
There are a few additional methods:
■ contains()
■ copy()
■ valueOf()
■ length()
For details on these methods, see the ActionScript 3.0 Language Reference.
XMLList objects
An XMLList instance represents an arbitrary collection of XML objects. It can contain full
XML documents, XML fragments, or the results of an XML query.
The following methods allow you to work with the hierarchical structure of XMLList objects:
■ child()
■ children()
■ descendants()
■ elements()
■ parent()