Oooh. Wait though - are you sure it's a deep recursive search? Because I'm only getting nodes on the top level. Surely the context shouldn't matter...
Might just cave and start using XPath... Alias On 15/11/2007, jake varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i was just about to send that to you. > > nice > > > > > Jake Varghese > CEO / Lead Developer > Flvorful > www.flvorful.com > office: 877-821-8022 x701 > cell: 512-289-3916 > > > Alias™ wrote: > > Aha, xml.parentNode should do the trick. > > Thanks for your help! > Alias > > On 15/11/2007, jake varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > do you have an example of the XML you need to parse? That would help > > with your example. > > > > > > thanks. > > > > Jake Varghese > > CEO / Lead Developer > > Flvorful > > www.flvorful.com > > office: 877-821-8022 x701 > > cell: 512-289-3916 > > > > > > Alias™ wrote: > > > > Thanks Jake. > > > > Cool, that clears things up a bit. My problem is that I need to find all > > the items of a certain type in a document, but I also need to understand > > their context, because I need to build a tree structure. Is there any way to > > get the context of the returned item? Like an xml equivalent of > > movieclip.parent ? > > > > Or maybe I should just make my own recursive function and do that. Gah. > > I hate recursion... > > > > Cheers, > > Alias > > > > On 15/11/2007, jake varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi Alias, > > > > > > > > > It is a deep, recursive search. > > > > > > Example: > > > > > > document..item > > > > > > That will find all <item> nestings in the XML document. > > > > > > You can limit the search by recursing farther down. > > > > > > *document.orders..item > > > *will find all *items* that are nested inside of an *order *tag. > > > > > > > > > hope that helps. > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > Jake Varghese > > > CEO / Lead Developer > > > Flvorful > > > www.flvorful.com > > > office: 877-821-8022 x701 > > > cell: 512-289-3916 > > > > > > > > > Alias™ wrote: > > > > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'm finding it hard to get a > > > straight answer on this. > > > > > > The ".." operator in E4X, yeah? > > > > > > What's going on there? Is it a deep recursive search, a single level > > > > > > > > > search, or what? Does it go through the whole document, or is it only > > > for the descendants of the current context? The documentation is so > > > vague and the W3C spec isn't much help either.. > > > > > > thanks in advance, > > > > > > > > > Alias > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > osflash mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > > > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > osflash mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > osflash mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > osflash mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > >
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