Depending on what exactly you mean by "imported". If this is XML that you are loading from a server directly into your app and have zero control over the format and you are the consumer of it, then perhaps your best approach is to simply work with what you get. You could write a transform class that basically parses the XML and then creates a new XML with your desired structure but I wouldn't necessarily jump through hoops unless the payoff was really huge.
If on the other hand someone is handing you an XML file and you are just going to place it on your server and then load and parse it at runtime then you have several options. If this is a one shot deal I might consider doing it manually. If this is going to be a regular occurrence where the XML will need to be updated fairly frequently then I would consider writing an XSLT transform. XSLT might be a pain to write the first time, but once done can take the process of transforming the XML in a matter of a few milliseconds. You can use ANT to execute the XSLT on the XML. If you have any type of server-side experience you can also apply the XSLT server-side even if you don't have access to the original XML generation. You could write a server side method that is in essence a proxy - the method calls the original server method to generate the XML, then your method would automatically apply the transform and send back the transformed XML. How you would approach this methodology would really depend on your server technology. There should be a number of examples of "proxy methods" out there for Flash users that were/are used to allow Flash to access a method on an external server by calling a method on the local server. This would be the same thing, except maybe just proxing a local method and applying XSLT to it. There are always a number of methods to wind up at the same end result. If you could provide more detail on what your exact situation is, it would be easier to give you some advise. Sincerely Mark R. Jonkman -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lehr, Theodore Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 2:24 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] xml to xml So I am getting some xml imported that is not formed as I would like - is it possible to parse it into xml that is formed how I would like it to be? _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
