how do you delete xml attributes?

[octothorp]

ok, this probably ranks as the stupidist question I've asked on here yet. A list of attributes is an array, right? So I should be able to delete an attribute using 'splice', right? If there is an easier way of deleting an attribute, please let me know.
So anyway, I write this code, which is supposed to iterate through a list of attributes, find the one that is to be delete, and deletes it. It does these first two steps, but I can't delete my freakin' attributes!

var count = 0;
//iterate through attributes
for (var prop in nodeRef.attributes) {
//find attribute that matches the attribute to be deleted
if (prop == attName) {
//delete the attribute
nodeRef.attributes.splice(count, 1);
}
count++;
}

Any help is regards to what I'm doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.

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[Jesse]

The attributes are actually names array objects which in Flash makes the attributes array less like an array and more like and array-like Object.
You shold simply be able to do:
delete nodeRef.attributes.attributeName;

[octothorp]

See, I knew it was going to be a simple answer, I just couldn't find an example of the code to use for it anywhere. Many thanks for your help!

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