MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH LITE 2.X ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE - Page 726

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Usage 1: You can set the ignoreWhite property for individual XML objects, as the following
code shows:
my_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
Usage 2: You can set the default ignoreWhite property for XML objects, as the following
code shows:
XML.prototype.ignoreWhite = true;
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 2.0
Example
The following example loads an XML file with a text node that contains only white space; the
foyer tag comprises fourteen space characters. To run this example, create a text file named
flooring.xml, and copy the following tags into it:
<house>
<kitchen> ceramic tile </kitchen>
<bathroom>linoleum</bathroom>
<foyer> </foyer>
</house>
Create a new Flash document named flooring.fla and save it to the same directory as the XML
file. Place the following code into the main Timeline:
// create a new XML object
var flooring:XML = new XML();
// set the ignoreWhite property to true (default value is false)
flooring.ignoreWhite = true;
// After loading is complete, trace the XML object
flooring.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
trace(flooring);
}
// load the XML into the flooring object
flooring.load("flooring.xml");
// output (line breaks added for clarity):
<house>
<kitchen> ceramic tile </kitchen>
<bathroom>linoleum</bathroom>
<foyer />
</house>
If you then change the setting of flooring.ignoreWhite to false, or simply remove that
line of code entirely, the fourteen space characters in the
foyer tag will be preserved:
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