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XML2 class with timeout and eventDispatcher

This is a welcome addition, I've spent some time trying to figure out the best OOP way to import XML and this helps a lot.

I'm currently trying to mix XML2 with XPath (http://www.xfactorstudio.com/Actionscript/AS2/XPath/)

Nice work! I don't know how you get on, but I had to alter the constructor to ignore whitespace:

function XML2(p_xml:String) {

super(p_xml);

this.ignoreWhite = true;

EventDispatcher.initialize(this);

}

Peter,

it extends XML, so you can use it exactly the same as XML:

myXML = new XML2();

myXML.ignoreWhite = true;

myXML.load("blah.xml");

Cheers,

Grant.

Nice work. Earlier today I came up with this. It's another way to 'update' XML for AS2 style event model, for your interest:

/////////////////////////////////////////////

// set the XML objects onLoad method to undefined,

// else UIEventDispatcher wont add load events:

myXML.onLoad = undefined;

mx.events.UIEventDispatcher.initialize(myXML);

myXML.addEventListener('load', this);

/////////////////////////////////////////////

cheers

bruce

Thanks Grant,

I realised, but why doesn't your example? If I put your example together with XML2, it doesn't work -- without altering one or the other. Or perhaps it's...

Do you use whiteless xml?

:)

peter

Peter, yes you may need to add

myXML.ignoreWhite = true;

to use the above example to load xml without the whitespace stripped out.

Cheers.

I have got this working great - but none of my HTML tags are converted in my text area component , even tho I have set myText.html = true ? any ideas

Hey there; great stuff Grant!

I was wondering if you could post an example of what the next steps would be for handling the XML. Basically, once you have it downloaded, how do you handle parsing it? What event triggers that?

Basically, I have a number of XML files that I'd like to download and parse before the movie loads.

Any suggestions?

James

Hey, nice work. Really cool.

Adam - i think you need to use a '

ok, so it cut that last message, it was mean to say a 'CDATA' tag, take a look here:

http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp

Cheers

Pete

Here is some good option to load multiple XML file

/***************************************************************************************

* Author - Sanjeev Rajput

* Date - 16-July-07

* class is used to load any XML file and dispatch an event when XML is loaded

*****************************************************************************************/

class XMLLoader extends mx.events.EventDispatcher {

//------------ variable Declaration -----------------

public var isLoaded:Boolean = false;

private var xmlObj:XML;

private var fileRef:String;

private static var ref:Object;

//---------- constructor function ---------

function XMLLoader() {

trace('XMLLoader constructor called');

this.xmlObj = new XML();

this.xmlObj.ignoreWhite = true;

}

//---------- XML load function ----------------

public function loadXML(fileRef,param:String) {

this.fileRef = fileRef;

ref = this;

this.xmlObj.onLoad = function(SS:Boolean) {

if (SS) {

//------------ dispatch event when loading complete --------------

ref.dispatchEvent({type:"XMLLoaded", target:this, targetName:param});

} else {

return;

}

};

//--------------- xml file reference ------------------------

this.xmlObj.load(this.fileRef);

}

}

Now we can use this custom class to load XML file in any other .as file like this....

/***************************************************************************************

* Author - Sanjeev Rajput

* Date - 16-July-07

* Version 1.0

*****************************************************************************************/

class UIController extends mx.events.EventDispatcher {

private static var UI_objRef:Object

private var WareaXML_obj:Object;

private var WareaXML:XML;

private var WareaXMLpath:String = "data/Warea.xml";

private var GalleryXML_obj:Object;

private var GalleryXML:XML;

private var GalleryXMLpath:String = "data/Gallery.xml";

private var fontListXML_obj:Object;

private var fontListXML:XML;

private var fontListXMLpath:String = "data/FontList.xml";

private static var isXMLParse:Boolean = false;

//---------- constructor function ---------

function UIController(timeLine) {

UI_objRef = this;

this.WareaXML_obj = new XMLLoader();

this.WareaXML_obj.loadXML(this.WareaXMLpath, "WareaXML");

this.fontListXML_obj = new XMLLoader();

this.fontListXML_obj.loadXML(this.fontListXMLpath, "FontListXML");

this.GalleryXML_obj = new XMLLoader();

this.GalleryXML_obj.loadXML(this.GalleryXMLpath, "GalleryXML");

this.GalleryXML_obj.addEventListener("XMLLoaded", this.initXMLData);

}

private function initXMLData(evt):Void {

if (evt.targetName == 'GalleryXML') {

UI_objRef.GalleryXML = evt.target;

UI_objRef.GalleryXML_obj.removeEventListener();

UI_objRef.initGComboBoxData();

}

if (evt.targetName == 'WareaXML') {

UI_objRef.WareaXML = evt.target;

UI_objRef.GalleryXML_obj.removeEventListener();

UI_objRef.initWComboBoxData();

}

if (evt.targetName == 'FontListXML') {

UI_objRef.fontListXML = evt.target;

UI_objRef.GalleryXML_obj.removeEventListener();

UI_objRef.initFComboBoxData();

}

}

private function initWComboBoxData():Void {

}

private function initGComboBoxData():Void {

}

private function initFComboBoxData():Void {

}

}

Enjoy

sanjeev

Hi

I have a problem with xml and have no solution to it.I know it is not reated to this article but...

My flash file loads an xml file. When the user opens the flash file(online), it gets downloaded on the user's temporary internet files.Also the xml file gets downloaded on the machine. In this way all my content reaches the clients' machine.I want to prevent that.Is there any solution to that?

Is there any way od passing xml data to flash file without the file getting downloaded on client's machine.

My problem is NOT related to caching of xml file(which most of the people think as).My problem is that I do not want my content files to reach the client's machine.

Eagerly waiting for some support...

Shilpi