status (XML.status property)

Automatically sets and returns a numeric value that indicates whether an XML document was successfully parsed into an XML object. The following are the numeric status codes, with descriptions:

Example

The following example loads an XML packet into a SWF file. A status message displays, depending on whether the XML loads and parses successfully. Add the following ActionScript to your FLA or AS file:

var my_xml:XML = new XML();
my_xml.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
    if (success) {
    if (my_xml.status == 0) {
        trace("XML was loaded and parsed successfully");
    } else {
        trace("XML was loaded successfully, but was unable to be parsed.");
    }
    var errorMessage:String;
    switch (my_xml.status) {
    case 0 :
        errorMessage = "No error; parse was completed successfully.";
        break;
    case -2 :
        errorMessage = "A CDATA section was not properly terminated.";
        break;
    case -3 :
        errorMessage = "The XML declaration was not properly terminated.";
        break;
    case -4 :
        errorMessage = "The DOCTYPE declaration was not properly terminated.";
        break;
    case -5 :
        errorMessage = "A comment was not properly terminated.";
        break;
    case -6 :
        errorMessage = "An XML element was malformed.";
        break;
    case -7 :
        errorMessage = "Out of memory.";
        break;
    case -8 :
        errorMessage = "An attribute value was not properly terminated.";
        break;
    case -9 :
        errorMessage = "A start-tag was not matched with an end-tag.";
        break;
    case -10 :
        errorMessage = "An end-tag was encountered without a matching
        start-tag.";
        break;
    default :
        errorMessage = "An unknown error has occurred.";
        break;
    }
    trace("status: "+my_xml.status+" ("+errorMessage+")");
    } else {
    trace("Unable to load/parse XML. (status: "+my_xml.status+")");
    }
};
my_xml.load("http://www.helpexamples.com/flash/badxml.xml");