While the base Xml API is easy to use, it is sometimes a bit painful to do all the checks of Xml correctness, and can result in verbose code. The haxe.xml.Fast API is here to help by providing a fast dot-syntax access to the most common Xml methods.

Here's an example of fast XML usage :

// parse some xml data
var xml = Xml.parse("
    <user name='john'>
        <phone>
            <number>0000</number>
            <number>111</number>
        </phone>
    </user>
");

// wrap the xml for fast access
var fast = new haxe.xml.Fast(xml.firstElement());

// access attributes
trace(fast.att.name); // attribute "name"
if( fast.has.age ) trace( fast.att.age ); // optional attribute

// access the "phone" child, which is wrapped with haxe.xml.Fast too
var phone = fast.node.phone;

// iterate over numbers
for( p in phone.nodes.number ) {
     trace(p.innerData);
}

This code works the same on all platforms.

Accessors

Here's the different accessors of the Fast API :