Parsing XML Namespace in as2

Question

HI, I am attempting to parse some weather information from the Yahoo weather RSS feed.
This is a typical XML node;
<description>Yahoo! Weather for Palm Springs, CA</description>
I used the typical XML parsing code in as2;
var text1 = this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
txt1.text = text1;
I was doing pretty good until I reached a node that was formatted thus;
<yweather:forecast day="Mon" date="28 Sep 2009" low="74" high="103" text="Sunny" code="32" />
This text traced a value of undefined.
I have tried to research this and so far all I have been able to find out, is that this is a XML namespace and is very easily handled in as3. Unfortunately I have to use as2.
How do I parse out this information into a dyamic text fields?
Or failing that, where in the literature does adobe expalin how this is done?
Forrest

Answer 1

Hi,
Try this code:
var xmlname:XML = new XML();
xmlname.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlname.load("sample.xml");
xmlname.onLoad = function(sucess:Boolean){
var xNode = xmlname.firstChild;
var tday = xNode.childNodes[0].attributes.day;
var tdate = xNode.childNodes[0].attributes.date;
trace(tdate);