It seems like a limitation that toXmlString() can't handle default namespaces or implicitly defined namespaces. For instance, when you use xml:id, you're using a namespace xml that you don't declare, and when you're using the default namespace http://example.com that namespace doesn't have a binding. toXmlString() apparently wants everything to be explicit, so it makes up bindings for the two namespaces — aaa and aab — and uses them to explicitly namespace the id attribute as well as the <root> node. I think the output XML string is functionally equivalent, but it's clearly not literally equivalent :(
On 3/22/07, Roger Braunstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting! I didn't know about xml:id. It appears that for > processors that support it, the xml namespace is bound implicitly to > http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace, and id is an attribute scoped to > this namespace. > AS3 seems to support this. Hurray! Here are some ways you could > extract the id attribute. This shows how you can use namespaced > attributes as well. > trace([EMAIL PROTECTED]); //null > trace([EMAIL PROTECTED]::id); //wtf > namespace xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace";; > trace([EMAIL PROTECTED]::id); //wtf > > On 3/22/07, Claus Wahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> var a:XMLList = new XMLList( > > >> '<?xml-stylesheet href="my.css" type="text/css"?>' + > > >> '<root xmlns="http://example.com/"; xmlns:id="wtf" />'); > > >> var b:XML = a[1]; > > >> trace(b.namespaceDeclarations()); //wtf > > >> trace(b.namespace()); //http://example.com/ > > >> namespaceDeclarations() gets the namespaces the node defines, and > > >> namespace() gets the namespace the node is in. You can see that the > > >> processing instruction has no impact on whether this works. > > > > > > Shouldn't b.namespaceDeclarations() also include the default namespace > > > declaration (xmlns="http://example.com/";), or does that get stripped out > > > because it's already accessible via b.namespace()? > > > > XML.ignoreProcessingInstructions = false; > > var a:XML = new XML( > > '<?xml-stylesheet href="my.css" type="text/css"?>' + > > '<root xmlns="http://example.com/"; xml:id="wtf" />'); > > trace(a.namespaceDeclarations()); > > > > When i use XML, namespaceDeclarations() contains the default > > declaration. When i use XMLList as in the example above, it doesn't. > > > > Cheers, > > Claus. > > > > -- > > claus wahlers > > côdeazur brasil > > http://codeazur.com.br/ > > http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/ > > > > > > -- > > Flexcoders Mailing List > > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > > Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
