Equipie: Flash AS3: elegant XML parsing

given the XML fragment

<root></root> 
	<loadermax largetarget="_self" load="true" maxconnections="4" name="holidayLoader" prependurls="assets/" smalltarget="_self"></loadermax> 
		<imageloader estimatedbytes="26419" name="background" url="bg.jpg"></imageloader> 
		<imageloader estimatedbytes="26419" name="title" url="title.jpg"></imageloader> 
		<imageloader estimatedbytes="26419" name="subtitle" url="sub_title.png"></imageloader> 
		<linksset1></linksset1> 
			<columnone></columnone> 
				<link link="http://www.link1" text="> Flowers"></link> 
				<link link="link2" text="> Bags & Purses"></link> 
				<link link="link3" text="Nightware & Slippers"></link> 
				<link link="link4" text="Fragrance & Beauty"></link> 
				<link link="link5" text="Jewellery & Watches"></link> 
				<link link="link6" text="Scarves"></link> 
				<link link="link7" text="Home Accessories"></link> 
			 
			<columntwo></columntwo> 
				<link link="http://www.link1" text="> Flowers"></link> 
				<link link="link2" text="> Bags & Purses"></link> 
				<link link="link3" text="Nightware & Slippers"></link> 
				<link link="link4" text="Fragrance & Beauty"></link> 
				<link link="link5" text="Jewellery & Watches"></link> 
				<link link="link6" text="Scarves"></link> 
				<link link="link7" text="Home Accessories"></link> 
			 
			<columnthree></columnthree> 
				<link link="http://www.link1" text="> Flowers"></link> 
				<link link="link2" text="> Bags & Purses"></link> 
				<link link="link3" text="Nightware & Slippers"></link> 
				<link link="link4" text="Fragrance & Beauty"></link> 
				<link link="link5" text="Jewellery & Watches"></link> 
				<link link="link6" text="Scarves"></link> 
				<link link="link7" text="Home Accessories"></link> 
			 
			<columnfour></columnfour> 
				<link link="http://www.link1" text="> Flowers"></link> 
				<link link="link2" text="> Bags & Purses"></link> 
				<link link="link3" text="Nightware & Slippers"></link> 
				<link link="link4" text="Fragrance & Beauty"></link> 
				<link link="link5" text="Jewellery & Watches"></link> 
				<link link="link6" text="Scarves"></link> 
				<link link="link7" text="Home Accessories"></link> 
						 
		 
	</blockquote>

a great way to extract the links is to use the for each loop:

for each (var link:XML in xmlSource.LoaderMax.LinksSet1..Link) {
trace(link.@link);
}

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Tuesday, 5 April 2011

Flash AS3: elegant XML parsing

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