Question

How do I get all the attributes that exist on a XML node? For example, I have the following XML:

<item id="100">
  <defaults width="10" height="100" post="true">
</item>

I would like to get the names and values on the defaults node.

Here is some starter code:

if (item.defaults) {
    var attributes:Object = item.defaults.@*; // found in another post

    for each (var value:String in attributes) {
        trace("value "+value); // prints 10,100,true
    }
    for (var property:String in attributes) {
        trace("property "+property); // prints 0,1,2 - I need to know the names
    }
}

I found the answer:

if (item.defaults) {
    attributes = item.defaults.attributes();
    attributesLength = attributes.length();
    defaults = {};

    for each (var attribute:Object in attributes) {
        propertyName = String(attribute.name());
        defaults[propertyName] = String(attribute);
    }
}

Answer 1

Shortest one I could think of:

var defaults : Object = {};
if (item.defaults)
    for each (var att : XML in item.defaults.@*)
        defaults["" + att.name ()] = "" + att.valueOf ();