Wow,
thanks for the quick response. I have one more question brewing about
adding values across elements. I will post it soon..:)
anyways thanks again for the help. Will try this!
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Geoffrey Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> 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" <coder_flex@>
> 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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