Question

Hello I keep running into errors and outputs that say “undefined” in my output panel when I try and parse XML using AS3. I would like to get the values of score1, score2….
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

thanks

Scientific

    ////AS3//////////

    import flash.net.URLLoader;
    import flash.net.URLRequest;
    import flash.events.Event;

    var myXML:XML;
    var xmlLoader = new URLLoader();
    xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, xmlLoaded);
    xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest("scores.xml"));

    function xmlLoaded(e:Event):void
    {
         myXML = new XML(e.target.data);
         trace(myXML.scores1); 

    }
    //////xml file////////////
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
    <root>
    <scores>
      <id>1</id>
       <score1>105</score1>
       <score2>60</score2>
       <score3>56</score3>
       <score4>48</score4>
       <score5>30</score5>
    </scores>
    </root>
    </feed>

Answer 1

You might find the descendant accessor .. useful. Example:

myXML..score1[0].toString()

Edit:

There is something about using the generic namespace that is causing some problems. Adding an alias fixes it, eg:

<feed xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">

Otherwise Flash is expecting that you are going to use fully qualified names to specify the element you are trying to access:

var qName:QName = new QName("http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom","score1");
trace(myXML.descendants(qName)[0].toString()); // 105