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  “new XML()” not working sometimes on Extendscript

  Posted by Miguel De mendoza on June 22, 2018 at 11:53 am

  Hi,I’m creating XML objects with this sintax:
  var element = "element";
var xml = new XML("<"+element+"/>");

  But sometimes it doesn’t work. On the navigation tab, in the toolkit, “xml” appears as an empty xml object.

  For example, in this code:

  function KT_Data(name, value){
this.name = (!name)?this.constructor.name : name;
this.value = (!value)?0: value;

  this.toXml = function(xml) {
  var newXml = new XML("<" + this.name+ "/>"); //WORKS
  newXml.@type = "KT_Data";
  newXml.@class = this.constructor.name;
  for (var property in this) {
  var prop = this[property];
  if (typeof prop == "function") {continue}
  if (prop instanceof KT_Data){
  prop.toXml(newXml);
  } else if (prop instanceof Array) {
  this.arrayToXml(newXml, prop, property);
  } else {
  newXml[property] = prop;
  }
  }
  xml.appendChild(newXml);
  return xml
  }

  this.arrayToXml = function(xml, property, nodeName) {
  var newXml = new XML("<" + nodeName+ "/>"); //NOT WORKING
  newXml.@type = "Array";
  for (var i = 0; i < property.length; i++) {
  var element = property[i];
  var childXml = new XML("

  It works when I create the root element and inside toXml() function, but not working inside arrayToXml().

  Someone can figure out why is this happening?

  Miguel De mendoza replied 7 years, 10 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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