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ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference > ActionScript classes > XMLNode > nodeType (XMLNode.nodeType property)

nodeType (XMLNode.nodeType property)

A nodeType value, either 1 for an XML element or 3 for a text node.

The nodeType is a numeric value from the NodeType enumeration in the W3C DOM Level 1 recommendation: www.w3.org/tr/1998/REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001/level-one-core.html. The following table lists the values:

In Flash Player, the built-in XML class only supports 1 (ELEMENT_NODE) and 3 (TEXT_NODE).

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 5

Example

The following example creates an element node and a text node, and checks the node type of each:

// create an XML document
var doc:XML = new XML();

// create an XML node using createElement()
var myNode:XMLNode = doc.createElement("rootNode");

// place the new node into the XML tree
doc.appendChild(myNode);

// create an XML text node using createTextNode()
var myTextNode:XMLNode = doc.createTextNode("textNode");

// place the new node into the XML tree
myNode.appendChild(myTextNode);

trace(myNode.nodeType);
trace(myTextNode.nodeType);

// output:
// 1
// 3

See also

nodeValue (XMLNode.nodeValue property)

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