XMLList "for each" loop update

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I have a problem with updating an XMLList object while in a “for each” loop.

I have the following XMLList object called “folders”:


<folders>
	<folder1>folder1</folder1>
	<folder2>folder2</folder2>
	<folder3>folder3</folder3>
	<folder4>folder4</folder4>
	<folder5>folder5</folder5>
</folders>

And I am running the following code:


var item:XML;
			
for each(item in folders.*)
{
	if (item.toString() != "")
	{
		item = XML(item.toString() + "/");
	}
	trace(item);
}

trace(folders);

And the results that are tracing to the Output panel are the following:


folder1/
folder2/
folder3/
folder4/
folder5/
<folders>
	<folder1>folder1</folder1>
	<folder2>folder2</folder2>
	<folder3>folder3</folder3>
	<folder4>folder4</folder4>
	<folder5>folder5</folder5>
</folders>

Basically, the individual XML objects are updating but they are not updating in the “folders” XMLList object.

What can i do to update them in the “folders” object ?

I have used a similar approach to update all of the attributes of an XMLList object and everything worked ok. I am not sure what exactly causes the differences between the attributes and the elements.