Question

I’m working with the Livestream API, and I need to get some XML with the desired channel info, so i’m having problem when reading the XML values with the XML object, because the tags are have the ‘:’ symbol in the tag name, like this:

<ls:isLive>true</ls:isLive>

When I try to select like this, it obviously return me a parsing error:

xmlData.ls:isLive

And then I tried this way, but it returned me empty value:

xmlData["ls:isLive"]

How can I select this element’s value by the tag name?

Answer 1

Suppose your xml looks like this:

var xml:XML = <root xmlns:ls="http://blabla.com">
                 <ls:isLive>true</ls:isLive>
              </root>

To access isLive tag you need to declare Namespace:

var ls:Namespace = new Namespace("ls","http://blabla.com") ;
var isLiveTag:* = xml.ls::isLive;