SimpleXMLDecoder for Flash


Having worked with Flex for almost two years uninterruptedly I developed this mental dependency for its packages and classes. I don't see it as something unnatural, but a little while back I had to work on a Flash project and to be honest I had a lot of moments of "man I wish I had *this* Flex class around".

One of those moments was related to parsing XML files and I just couldn't stop thinking about sweet SimpleXMLDecoder I had, just waiting for me to give it something to decode. I was really lazy then (and maybe for all the good reasons) and decided not to build an XML parser myself nor search for one but simply to change the SimpleXMLDecoder I was so used to in order to work for my Flash project.

All I had to do was to strip the Flex dependencies which were related to the ArrayCollection class (Flash doesn't have it) and I was all set.

The class worked exactly as I wanted it to and it did help my Flex centered ego :)

Feel free to downlod the source if you think you need it.

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March 31st, 2009
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Jaap den Hertog
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May 5, 2009 at 10:26 am

Hi Cristian,

Great job on the SimpleXMLDecoder class. I’ve added the possibility to load the xml file. And use the attributes.

http://www.freshlemons.nl/?p=71

Cheers,
Jaap

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Simple XML Parser AS3.0 « FreshLemons
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September 7, 2009 at 10:45 pm

[...] Because of this highly inefficient way of working I decided to create a global class to load xml and convert it to an object tree. When I started with this target I searched around and discovered the Flex class SimpleXMLDecoder. As it turns out, Flex has its own class to convert an XML into an object tree. While looking for more material I found someone who converted the flex class into AS3 this can be found here [...]

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Cristian Andreica
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March 30, 2010 at 3:54 pm

Salut Cristi,

Nu am gasit o adresa de mail pe nicaieri.
Vroiam sa te intreb: ai dezvoltat sau vrei sa dezvolti applicatii colaborative?

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Cristian
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April 9, 2010 at 11:04 am

@Cristian Andreica

salut, ti-am scris mail. mersi fain de vizita, numai bine.
cristi