ok so this is just nutty
apparently the reason it's different is because in the example i put that
works, the 'person' node has children. what that has to do with it I have
no idea, but apparently- e4x is not returning me self closing nodes with no
children. anybody know what is up with this???
d.
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Derrick Anderson <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> weird, because it does not work for me. i don't understand.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Daniel Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > worked for me using this:
> >
> > debugModel.employees.node.(@display == "Employee First Name")
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Derrick Anderson <
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > can someone please explain why this does not return an XMLList?
> > >
> > > public var debugModel:XML = <mergefields display="Merge Fields">
> > > <employees display="Employees">
> > > <node display="Employee First Name"
> > > data="Employee_234234-234234-234234-234234" />
> > > <node display="Employee Last Name"
> > > data="Employee_234234-234234-234234-234234" />
> > > .....
> > >
> > >
> > > var fieldNode:XMLList =
> > > debugModel.employees.node.(attribute("display") == "Employee First Name");
> > >
> > > but this does...
> > >
> > > public var thePeople:XML = <people>
> > > <person name="Mims Wright" suffix="III">
> > > <age>27</age>
> > > <aka>Mims H Wright</aka>
> > > <aka>Teh AWesoeomes!</aka>
> > > <bio></bio>
> > > </person>
> > > .....
> > >
> > > var fieldNode:XMLList = thePeople.person.(attribute("suffix") ==
> > > "III");
> > >
> > > i've tried a million different variations and i cannot get it to work
> > > with my XML- what am i doing wrong here?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > d.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
