Thanks Karl.  

There are some problems doing it that way if you have more than one namespace 
or the namespaces contain prefixes.  I developed a workaround based on various 
things I pieced together from Google, to "disable" the namespaces by using 
RegEx and inserting underscores for the ":", which works for the default and 
any others with prefixes:

var xmlString:String = myXMLList.toXMLString();

// define the regex pattern to remove the namespaces from the string
xmlString = xmlString.replace(new RegExp('<*:','gi'),'_');
xmlString = xmlString.replace(new RegExp('xmlns=','gi'),'xmlns_=');
var finalXML:XML = XML(xmlString);

However, I would love to know why it has to be done this way. Seems kinda 
hackish.

But it is kinda cool, it will turn this:

<GetUserProfileByNameResponse 
xmlns="http://microsoft.com/webservices/SharePointPortalServer/UserProfileService";
 xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; 
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";>
  <GetUserProfileByNameResult>
    <PropertyData>
      <IsPrivacyChanged>false</IsPrivacyChanged>
      <IsValueChanged>false</IsValueChanged>
      <Name>UserProfile_GUID</Name>
      <Privacy>Public</Privacy>
      <Values>
        <ValueData>
          <Value xsi:type="q1:guid" 
xmlns:q1="http://microsoft.com/wsdl/types/";>cce6e082-0423-4d2d-930c-bf522a9852b1</Value>
        </ValueData>
      </Values>
    </PropertyData>

Into this very workable XML:

<GetUserProfileByNameResponse 
xmlns_="http_//microsoft.com/webservices/SharePointPortalServer/UserProfileService"
 xmlns_soap="http_//schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" 
xmlns_xsi="http_//www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
xmlns_xsd="http_//www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <GetUserProfileByNameResult>
    <PropertyData>
      <IsPrivacyChanged>false</IsPrivacyChanged>
      <IsValueChanged>false</IsValueChanged>
      <Name>UserProfile_GUID</Name>
      <Privacy>Public</Privacy>
      <Values>
        <ValueData>
          <Value xsi_type="q1_guid" 
xmlns_q1="http_//microsoft.com/wsdl/types/">cce6e082-0423-4d2d-930c-bf522a9852b1</Value>
        </ValueData>
      </Values>
    </PropertyData>

 Jason Merrill
 Instructional Technology Architect
 Bank of America  Global Learning 





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Or even this??

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/
XML.html#text()

I believe this one strips out namespaces.

Best,
Karl


On Apr 28, 2011, at 9:32 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote:

> I'm going crazy trying to drill down into a XMLList which has 
> namespaces declared. I have been able to go into a few layers of the 
> original XML with namespaces using namespace definitions in AS3, but 
> now I am stuck at the last level.
>
> The XMLList I have pared it down to has a length of 1 and has 
> namespaces declared, which is throwing things off.  How can I get to 
> the <PropertyData /> nodes given that namespaces are involved?
>
> The following code can be copied and pasted into a fresh .fla as a 
> test case:
>
> /*--------------------TEST CASE-------------------------*/
>
> var myXMLList:XMLList = XMLList(<GetUserProfileByNameResponse
> xmlns="http://microsoft.com/webservices/SharePointPortalServer/
> UserProfileService" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/
> envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";  
> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";>
>   <GetUserProfileByNameResult>
>     <PropertyData>
>                         <Value>HelloWorld 1</Value>
>     </PropertyData>
>     <PropertyData>
>                         <Value>HelloWorld 1</Value>
>     </PropertyData>
>   </GetUserProfileByNameResult>
> </GetUserProfileByNameResponse>);
>
> var pnNs:Namespace = new Namespace("http://microsoft.com/ 
> webservices/SharePointPortalServer/UserProfileService");
>
> var myXMLList2:XMLList = myXMLList.pnNs::GetUserProfileByNameResult;
>
> trace("myXMLList2: "+myXMLList2)//Traces fine, except more namespaces 
> (xmlns) appear as attributes in first node.
>
> for each (var propertyDataXML:XML in myXMLList2..PropertyData) {
>             //WHY DOES THIS NOT TRACE?
>             trace("propertyDataXML: "+propertyDataXML); } 
> /*------------------------------------------------------*/
>
> I also tried this for the loop as well:
>
> /*------------------------------------------------------*/
>
> for each (var propertyDataXML2:XML in
> myXMLList2.pnNs::GetUserProfileByNameResult..PropertyData)
> {
>             //WHY DOES THIS NOT TRACE?
>             trace("propertyDataXML: "+propertyDataXML2); } 
> /*------------------------------------------------------*/
>
> And why does the trace on myXMLList2 show an XML list where there is 
> more namespace applied: "<GetUserProfileByNameResponse 
> xmlns=http://microsoft.com/webservices/SharePointPortalServer/
> UserProfileService..." ??
>
> Any help is MUCH appreciated.
>
> Jason Merrill
> Instructional Technology Architect
> Bank of America  Global Learning
>
>
>
>
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