I don't know if I have ever noticed this removal of comments, I'd need to verify.
To iterate over nodes, use an e4x expression to return an XMLList, then use a for loop. Or For Each, or For In. The docs have some more detail and examples. A list can also use XMLList as a dataProvider if you do not plan to programmaticlly update the dataprovider. If you do, simply wrap the XMLList in an XMLListCollection. It looks like you will need to declare the default namespace, or use the namespace::node in all e4x expressions. You've not shown any expressions, so I can't say what you're doing wrong. Tracy ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dfalling Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 6:10 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] parsing complex xml I'm trying to parse a complex xml file (a log4j config file) and am running into a number of problems: * Flex seems to remove all the comments from the file. Is there any way to prevent this? I don't need access to them in Flex, but do want them to be untouched. * I have no idea how to iterate over the items or to set xml as a list's data provider. The tag containing everything I need to access is log4j:configuration, and when I try to access xml.log4j::configuration flex complains about not having the property log4j. If anyone knows of good xml tutorials that would help me to grasp this better I'd really appreciate it. Most of the ones I've found are basically the "hello world" of xml parsing...the few dealing with namespaces do little to explain what they're doing. <log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/ <http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/> " debug="false"> <category name="org.apache"> <priority value="INFO"/> </category> <!-- Limit the org.jboss.serial (jboss-serialization) to INFO as its DEBUG is verbose --> <category name="org.jboss.serial"> <priority value="INFO"/> </category> <!-- Limit the org.jgroups category to WARN as its INFO is verbose --> <category name="org.jgroups"> <priority value="WARN"/> </category> <!-- Limit the jacorb category to WARN as its INFO is verbose --> <category name="jacorb"> <priority value="WARN"/> </category> . . . </log4j:configuration> Thanks a lot! -dennis
