CodFusion

Ok, today's example is a Flex/AS3 one. Basically, when you deal with xml documents with namespaces it can be painful to search through the document. In this example, the person is stripping out the namespace info with regex before converting to an xml list to handle the data. What went wrong here?


public function result(response:Object):void
{
var xmlString:String;
var xmlnsPattern:RegExp;
var namespaceRemovedXML:String;
var responseXML:XML;

// get the XML payload
if(ResultEvent(response).result is XMLList)
{
response = ResultEvent(response).result as XMLList;
}
else
{
response = ResultEvent(response).result as XML;
}

// convert it to a string
xmlString = response.toXMLString();

// define the regex pattern to remove the namespaces from the string
xmlnsPattern = new RegExp("xmlns[^\"]*\"[^\"]*\"", "gi");

// remove the namespaces from the string representation of the XML
namespaceRemovedXML = xmlString.replace(xmlnsPattern, "");

// set the string rep. of the XML back to real XML
responseXML = new XML(namespaceRemovedXML);

// do something with the XML
}