To be clear, it’s not just empty ones:
The following literal should create a two item XMLList:
var myList:XMLList = <>
<employee>
<name>Christina Coenraets</name>
<phone>555-219-2270</phone>
<email>[email protected]</email>
<active>true</active>
</employee>
<employee>
<name>Joanne Wall</name>
<phone>555-219-2012</phone>
<email>[email protected]</email>
<active>true</active>
</employee>
</>
Harbs
> On Sep 25, 2018, at 8:09 PM, Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Yeah, the compiler's parser did not seem to understand the empty XMLList
> literal, which is <></>
>
> For now, I think we'll just ask folks to replace that literal with "new
> XMLList()"
>
> I'm working on a fix for XMLList.
>
> -Alex
>
> On 9/25/18, 3:28 AM, "Harbs" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Yes. I see it is supposed to be able to be created like that.[1]
>
> Note the literal creation of XMLList using <> and </> too. That will
> probably require work in the compiler to support.
>
>
> [1]https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwso2.com%2Fproject%2Fmashup%2F0.2%2Fdocs%2Fe4xquickstart.html%23literal&data=02%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%7C19903f22be6446c4b5d808d622d195e9%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636734680903994581&sdata=kLKuoQ0BhuCKF4qYZHPV9krKOHSIF2WnUkbXfvcGHFQ%3D&reserved=0
>
>> On Sep 25, 2018, at 10:51 AM, Harbs <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I’m not sure I was aware you could create an XMLList from markup like that.
>>
>> I assume you know this is supposed to work.
>>
>> I’m not available this week, but I can try and work on this late next week
>> if you want.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Harbs
>>
>>> On Sep 25, 2018, at 10:17 AM, Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Looking at XMLList.as, it seems like it won't handle an input string that
>>> is more than one XML node, such as:
>>>
>>> <employee>
>>> <name>Christina Coenraets</name>
>>> <phone>555-219-2270</phone>
>>> <email>[email protected]</email>
>>> <active>true</active>
>>> </employee>
>>> <employee>
>>> <name>Joanne Wall</name>
>>> <phone>555-219-2012</phone>
>>> <email>[email protected]</email>
>>> <active>true</active>
>>> </employee>
>>>
>>> Is that intentional or a bug?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Alex
>>>
>>
>
>
>
