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Accessing Parent Nodes: parent( ) method can be used successively to access any ancestor node

 


package{
  import flash.display.Sprite;
  
  public class Main extends Sprite{
    public function Main(){


        var doc:XML = <grandparent><parent><child></child></parent></grandparent>;
        trace(doc);
        var kid:XML = doc.parent.child[0];
        trace(kid);
        var grandparent:XML = kid.parent().parent(  );
        trace(grandparent);
    }
  }
}








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1.Retrieve an XMLList representing the element's children, and then invoke parent( ) on that list
2.Invoking parent( ) on an XMLList with a single XML instance is identical to invoking parent( ) on that instance itself.
3.attribute.parent() returns the element on which the attribute is defined.