How to migrate AS2 to AS3.? - actionscript-3

Question

How to convert ActionScript 2.0 code to ActionScript 3.0
this is code :
//***********************************************************
var theXML:XML = new XML();
theXML.ignoreWhite = true;
theXML.onLoad = function() {
var nodes = this.firstChild.childNodes;
for (i=0;i<nodes.length;i++){
theList.addItem(nodes[i].firstChild.nodeValue,i);
}
}
theXML.load("http://localhost/conn.php");
//***********************************************************
This is my PHP code that echo's an XML string :
echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n";
echo "<name>\n";
while ( $line = mysql_fetch_assoc($res) )
{ echo "<item>" . $line["name"] . "</item>\n"; }
echo "</name>\n"
Using AS3, how do I parse the XML string as actual XML data with nodes?

Answer 1

There are many examples of how to work with XML in AS3, and how to migrate AS2 to AS3.
This would be the equivalent of what you posted:
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader.load(new URLRequest("http://localhost/conn.php"));
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loaderComplete);
function loaderComplete(e:Event):void {
XML.ignoreWhitespace = true;
var xml:XML = new XML(loader.data);
var nodes:XMLList = xml.child(0).children();
for (var i:int = 0; i < nodes.length(); i++) {
theList.addItem(nodes[i].child(0).text());
}
}
Note that in AS3 you can reference XML nodes by name, for example xml.gallery.image[3].url instead of xml.child(0).children()[3].child(0), etc.