open and edit existing xml

[Beta2k]

what is the best practise to open/load an existing xml-file and to append new child elements and save the edited xml-file in flash?

i am working with AS2.
is the xml object "sockets" good for that? or the component "xml connector"?

help would be greatly appreciated.

[a_modified_dog]

code available at this link -
http://www.jackleaman.co.uk/test/wri...hange_xml.html

make your edits and Save. Refresh or close the browser and on return
your edited xml file will still hold your editing.

[Beta2k]

thx. worked just fine!

[Beta2k]

another short and hopefully easy question regarding this topic.

in my application i am working with a variable/object called "doc" of the type "XML".
in this variable i load the XML-files i am working with (e.g. appending new elements...).

now sometimes i need a completely new xml to be created. so i have to clear the doc-object because i need an empty doc-variable to build my new xml-file. how can i do this?

something like:
"doc:XML = null" ? but i think then it gets destroyed in the memory, which is not good...

EDIT: i want to be able to work with a global XML-object called "doc".
i read in another thread that i could do:

var doc:XML = new XML();

but this won't work because this "doc:XML" won't reference to my doc:XML which i used before..

so how can i create a global Object of the type XML?
_global.doc:XML = new XML(); does not work. i want to be able to work with this global doc:XML-object everywhere in my application without the need to pass it to each function. then again i would need the ability to clear it somehow, which should be possible.

[a_modified_dog]

try - _global.doc = new XML();

[Beta2k]

thx for your help again! :-)

there still seems to be a problem.

i am also working with an event-listener who listens to "_global.doc.onload", which looks like this:

_global.doc.onLoad = function(success) {
//do something here
};

after i use "_global.doc = new XML();" for the first time after running my application the onLoad.eventListener seems not to work anymore, since when i do "_global.doc.load(path2file)" after "_global.doc = new XML();" it won't execute the "_global.doc.onLoad" method...

the code works like this:
_global.doc = new XML(); => then create a new xml file and save it to harddisk ==> then i want to load it again, which does not work anymore because he wont execute the _global.doc.onload eventhandler anymore after i do "_global.doc = new XML();"...

should that work normally?

[Beta2k]

i think i solved it :-) yay!

after doing

_global.doc = new XML();

i am defining a "new" onload handler which then works!

would you also have solved it that way?