Xml – How to retrieve the node name from XML in Flex / Actionscript

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I have some data xml data that looks like this

<root xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="test1.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <configuration>
    <CLICK/>
    <KLT/>
    <DETd/>
  </configuration>
</root>

I get a list of the configurations using

var results:XMLList = xml.configuration.*;

Now I want to loop over the XMLList and output CLICK, KLT, DETd etc. but how in XML do I get the node name as such

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XML:

<root>
    <parentNode>
        <childNode1>1</childNode1>
        <childNode2>2</childNode2>
        <childNode3>3</childNode3>
    </parentNode>
</root>

All you need to do is use .name() while iterating through parentNode's children().

for(var i:int=0;i<xml.children()[0].children().length();i++)
{
    var currentNode:XML = xml.children()[0].children()[i];
    trace(currentNode.name());
}

//childNode1
//childNode2
//childNode3

Html – What does the url in XML file mean

Those URLs do not necessarily point to any website/server. They are a convenient naming mechanism. The idea is since every company will have a unique website, using that as their namespace will avoid clashes. Hence better interoperability. Hence the custom.

Namespaces in XML 1.0 Specification

Python – How to parse XML and count instances of a particular node attribute

I suggest ElementTree. There are other compatible implementations of the same API, such as lxml, and cElementTree in the Python standard library itself; but, in this context, what they chiefly add is even more speed -- the ease of programming part depends on the API, which ElementTree defines.

First build an Element instance root from the XML, e.g. with the XML function, or by parsing a file with something like:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
root = ET.parse('thefile.xml').getroot()

Or any of the many other ways shown at ElementTree. Then do something like:

for type_tag in root.findall('bar/type'):
    value = type_tag.get('foobar')
    print(value)

And similar, usually pretty simple, code patterns.

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