| XML.attributes Property | Flash 5 |
| an object whose properties store element attributes | read/write | theNode.attributes.attributeIdentifier theNode.attributes[attributeNameInQuotes]
Description The attributes property stores the names and values of attributes defined by theNode, where theNode can be an XML or XMLnode instance. For example, the ALIGN attribute of this P tag: <P ALIGN="CENTER">this is a paragraph</P> is accessed using theNode.attributes.ALIGN or theNode.attributes["ALIGN"]. If the P tag is the only tag in our XML source, we can access the ALIGN attribute as follows: // Create an XML object hierarchy myDoc = new XML('<P ALIGN="CENTER">this is a paragraph</P>'); // Access the ALIGN attribute. Displays: "CENTER" trace(myDoc.firstChild.attributes.ALIGN); // Set the ALIGN attribute myDoc.firstChild.attributes.ALIGN = "LEFT"; The attributes property is itself an object. We can add new properties to the attributes object, thereby adding new attributes to theNode, as follows: // Add a CLASS attribute to the P tag myDoc.firstChild.attributes.CLASS = "INTRO"; // firstChild now represents the XML source: // <P ALIGN="CENTER" >this is a paragraph</P> Because attributes is not an array, it doesn't contain a length property to indicate the number of properties/attributes it includes. Instead, we can access all the attributes defined on an element using a for-in loop: var count = 0; for (var prop in theNode.attributes) { trace("attribute " + prop + " has the value " + theNode.attributes[prop]); count++; } trace("The node has " + count + " attributes."); If the XML element represented by theNode has no attributes, attributes is an empty object with no properties, and the preceding example would indicate zero attributes. See Also XML.nodeType | 
