Here you go:
var employees:XML =
<employees>
<employee name="joe mark">
<department id="id1"/>
<address city="miami" state="florida"/>
</employee>
<employee name="joe mark">
<address city="san francisco" state="california"/>
</employee>
<employee name="mary dooley">
<department id="id1"/>
<address city="los angeles" state="california"/>
</employee>
</employees>;
trace (employees.employee.(child ("department")[EMAIL PROTECTED] == "id1"));
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "coder_flex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> I have an xml document of the form
> <employees>
> <employee name="joe mark">
> <department id="id1"/>
> <address city="miami" state="florida"/>
> </employee>
> <employee name="joe mark">
> <address city="san francisco" state="california"/>
> </employee>
> <employee name="mary dooley">
> <department id="id1"/>
> <address city="los angeles" state="california"/>
> </employee>
>
> </employees>
>
> Note here that the second employee record doesnt have department
> element at all. This is just a sample and my original xml is a web
> service response with some of the child elements missing for some
> elements. I want to filter the parent element on the child elements
> which may or may not be present using an e4x expression. The e4x
> expression of the form:
>
> employeesByDept:XMLList = employees.employee.([EMAIL PROTECTED]
== "id1");
>
> fails saying department element not found. If the department
element
> is found for all the employees the above statement goes through.
>
> Whats the work-around for this? I thought its fairly common to have
> child elements/attributes missing within elements and e4x should
just
> ignore those.
>
> Thanks in advance for the response.
>
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