yes, i tried it and have it working now- mostly user error but I must say
not being able to debug e4x expressions has ruined my day on many occasions.
i was using toString on the xml list, thinking it would show me the xml node
it found and children (if any), toString was returning nothing and a length
of 0 so I assumed nothing was coming back. when i added children, the
toString started showing me the node i was trying to find.
so, the blank response held the object i was looking for- but toString was
not showing it.
thanks for your help on this!
d.
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Daniel Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've never used the attribute syntax you're using, so I'm not familiar
> with it, but in your first employee example this syntax returned the
> matching node, have you tried it?
>
> debugModel.employees.node.(@display == "Employee First Name")
>
> looks like you added another level in your latest example so for that case
> this should return the node:
>
> debugModel.group.(@label == "Employees").node.(@label == "Employee First
> Name")
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Derrick Anderson <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > thanks guys, i'm sure that my xml is valid, i've refined what i'm
> > trying to do here a bit
> >
> > public var debugModel:XML =
> > <mergefields label="Merge Fields">
> > <group label="Employees">
> > <node label="Employee First Name"
> > data="Employee_234234-234234-234234-234234" />
> > <node label="Employee Last Name"
> > data="Employee_11111-111111-111111-111111" />
> > <node label="Last Performance Note Date"
> > data="Employee_234234-234234-234234-234234" />
> > <node label="Login"
> > data="Employee_234234-234234-234234-234234" />
> > <node label="Login Link"
> > data="Employee_234234-234234-234234-234234" />
> > </group>
> > ...
> >
> > what i'm trying to do is find any node that has a certain label, like so
> >
> > var fieldNode:XMLList = debugModel.children().node.(attribute("label")
> > == "Employee First Name");
> >
> > and no matter what i try it is not working, what it seems to be doing is
> > returning me all children of the node i'm looking for (there are none). if
> > I give that node some arbitrary child nodes, then the node is returned with
> > it's children, what gives?.
> >
> > d.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Varun Shetty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > make sure that your xml is wellformed
> > >
> > > it did work for me.
> > > ------------------- code ------------------------
> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > > <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";
> > > layout="vertical"
> > > initialize="runthis();">
> > > <mx:Script>
> > > <![CDATA[
> > >
> > > 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" />
> > > <node display="Employee First Name"
> > > data="Employee_1212121-121212-12121-12112121" />
> > > <node display="Employee Last Name"
> > > data="Employee_1212121-121212-12121-12112121" />
> > >
> > > </employees>
> > > </mergefields>;
> > >
> > > public function runthis():void {
> > > var fieldNode:XMLList =
> > > debugModel.employees.node.(attribute("display") == "Employee First Name");
> > > trace(fieldNode);
> > > }
> > > ]]>
> > > </mx:Script>
> > > </mx:Application>
> > > ------------------- code ------------------------
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:43 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.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
