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This utility provides the ability for PureMVC-based AIR applications to easily create and persist and work with XML databases.

The utility has historically been located here: http://trac.puremvc.org/Utility_AS3_AIR_XMLDatabase
The project has been moved here: https://github.com/PureMVC/puremvc-as3-util-air-xmldatabase/wiki

The author is Cliff Hall.

1.2 of this utility has been released. There is no need to upgrade existing Standard Version apps, as the only change was to add support for MultiCore.

-=Cliff>

Great utility Cliff, thanks! One problem I've come across is when attempting to load xml from a utf-8 encoded file which includes the 3-byte BOM up front. The xml constructor baulks at trying to parse the string read from the file stream as it ignores the BOM. I got around this by overriding the XMLDataProxy.read() method as follows:
override protected function read():XML
{
// Read the database file into an XML object and return it
var dbStream:FileStream;
dbStream = new FileStream();
dbStream.open(dbFile, FileMode.READ);

// Accomodate byte order marker
if (((dbStream.readUnsignedByte() << 16) | (dbStream.readUnsignedByte() << 8) | dbStream.readUnsignedByte()) ^ 0xEFBBBF) {
dbStream.position = 0;
}

var dbXML:XML = XML(dbStream.readUTFBytes(dbStream.bytesAvailable));
dbStream.close();
return dbXML;
}
Cheers!

Thanks for this catch! Can you send me a file I can test this with?

Thanks,
-=Cliff>

Here you go Cliff. Just a basic xml file which includes the BOM.

Cheers,
Brendan