How do I connect (and use content of) an RDF file in Flex?

Question

Hi all,

I'm working on a prototype in flex and I need to connect my application to an .RDF file that contains some properties. I need to use and manipulate those properties in a "descriptor file" made in Actionscript. So my question is: how do I connect my flex application to that .RDF file? Thanks,

regards

David

Answer 1

If RDF is represented in its XML form (which I guess is the most common anyway), you can simply treat it as XML and use the built-in XML and XMLList classes, and the rather convenient E4X (ECMAScript for XML) syntax to traverse your document. To load the RDF file from the server or from another remote location, use the URLLoader class.

If, on the other hand, the RDF uses some other representation, you'll probably have to do the parsing from plaintext yourself. (You can still use URLLoader).