Another item I need to keep looking up: how to get the attributes of an XML item.

Here, per the ever-helpful Senocular, is the definitive note on the subject.

E4X (XML used in ActionScript 3) has new operators to access values in XML. One operator is the @ operator which accesses attributes. It can be used in place of the attribute() (Top level XML.attribute()) method for obtaining attribute values. Ex:

ActionScript Code:

var myXML:XML = ;

trace(myXML.attribute("name")); // senocular

trace(myXML.attribute("id")); // 2867

trace(myXML.@name); // senocular

trace(myXML.@id); // 2867 

 

You can also use an asterisk (*) with the @ operator to get a list of all attributes associated with an XML node in the form of an XMLList object. This is equivalent to the attributes() (Top level XML.attributes()) method. Ex:

ActionScript Code:

var myXML:XML = ;

var atts:XMLList;


atts = myXML.attributes();

trace(atts.toXMLString());

/* Output:

senocular

2867

*/

atts = myXML.@*;

trace(atts.toXMLString());

/* Output:

senocular

2867

*/