public attributes : Object

An object containing all of the attributes of the specified XML instance. The XML.attributes object contains one variable for each attribute of the XML instance. Because these variables are defined as part of the object, they are generally referred to as properties of the object. The value of each attribute is stored in the corresponding property as a string. For example, if you have an attribute named color, you would retrieve that attribute's value by specifying color as the property name, as the following code shows:

var myColor:String = doc.firstChild.attributes.color

Example

The following example shows the XML attribute names:

// create a tag called 'mytag' with 
// an attribute called 'name' with value 'Val'
var doc:XML = new XML("<mytag name=\"Val\"> item </mytag>");

// assign the value of the 'name' attribute to variable y
var y:String = doc.firstChild.attributes.name;
trace (y); // output: Val

// create a new attribute named 'order' with value 'first'
doc.firstChild.attributes.order = "first";

// assign the value of the 'order' attribute to variable z
var z:String = doc.firstChild.attributes.order
trace(z); // output: first

The following is displayed in the Output panel:

Val
first