[thelist] Flash 5 and XML
Anthony Baratta
Anthony at Baratta.com
Fri Nov 3 17:36:30 CST 2000
John...
Thanks for the info. I stumbled upon the async'ness of the XML load and found a
pretty good work around with the onLoad property.
e.g.
xml1 = new XML();
xml1.onLoad = myOnLoad;
xml1.load(".\\products.xml");
function myOnLoad (success) {
if (success) {
... blah blah blah ...
}
}
I do have a bone to quibble about with Macromedia's XML parsing. It does not seem
very clean. When I do a node count of a clean parsing XML file with 4 nodes, I get 9
nodes. 5 of the "extra" nodes are garbage nodes. Also, the Debugger does not cleanly
represent the XML data forcing sibling nodes in to a ugly tree view.
e.g.
node 1
garbage node
node 2
garbage node
node 3
garbage node
node 4
garbage node
Why does the debugger force this type of view with sibling nodes?? I'd really hate to
work with fairly large amounts of data. These quirks makes traversing the tree very
difficult.
--
Anthony Baratta
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