Re: [flexcoders] e4x question

2007-09-27 Thread Toby Tremayne
You are a legend, thanks so much! On 26/09/2007, at 11:27 , Seth Caldwell wrote: Oh my god Toby, I just spent an hour because I was determined to learn about namespaces, and found a solution for you. =) After reading http://www.partlyhuman.com/blog/roger/using-e4x-with-

Re: [flexcoders] e4x question

2007-09-27 Thread Toby Tremayne
Thanks to all for the information, I think i just learned more about ecma standards and e4x than I could have in a few days of reading! Toby On 27/09/2007, at 11:11 , shaun wrote: Hi Peter, Peter Hall wrote: You don't need to give the namespace variable the same as the prefix that

Re: [flexcoders] e4x question

2007-09-26 Thread Paul deCoursey
I have been getting caught up with with one for a few weeks now, I keep forgetting to specify the namespace. I actually think this is a bug, but I haven't checked the Ecma requirements yet. In XPATH and the like if you don't specify a namespace in the query it will return all elements

Re: [flexcoders] e4x question

2007-09-26 Thread Douglas Knudsen
have a go at http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/000223.cfm too. DK On 9/26/07, Paul deCoursey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been getting caught up with with one for a few weeks now, I keep forgetting to specify the namespace. I actually think this is a bug, but I haven't checked

Re: [flexcoders] e4x question

2007-09-26 Thread Paul deCoursey
Alright, I've read the specs, it's not a bug but in fact it's by design... a design choice that I would not have made. The deal is if the namespace is not specified then for elements it matches on the default namespace, but for attributes it matches on no namespace... makes not sense to me.

Re: [flexcoders] e4x question

2007-09-26 Thread Peter Hall
You don't need to give the namespace variable the same as the prefix that ActionScript gives it when you toString() it. Internally, it doesn't use a name and just generates one when you convert the XML to a string. You can give it something more descriptive like: namespace w3xml =

Re: [flexcoders] e4x question

2007-09-26 Thread shaun
Hi Peter, Peter Hall wrote: You don't need to give the namespace variable the same as the prefix that ActionScript gives it when you toString() it. Internally, it doesn't use a name and just generates one when you convert the XML to a string. You can give it something more descriptive like:

[flexcoders] e4x question

2007-09-25 Thread Toby Tremayne
hi all - i'm trying to get the english status from a skype status xml (below). What I'm not sure how to deal with is the xml:lang attribute. I'm sure there's a clever way to set the namespace and use e4x to get out the one i want but i'm not sure how. I ended up doing this: for (i=0; i

RE: [flexcoders] e4x question

2007-09-25 Thread Seth Caldwell
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Toby Tremayne Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:47 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] e4x question hi all - i'm trying to get the english status from a skype status xml (below). What I'm not sure how to deal

RE: [flexcoders] e4x question

2007-09-25 Thread Seth Caldwell
Oh my god Toby, I just spent an hour because I was determined to learn about namespaces, and found a solution for you. =) After reading http://www.partlyhuman.com/blog/roger/using-e4x-with-xhtml-watch-your-namespaces I created blah.xml test

Re: [flexcoders] e4x question

2007-09-25 Thread shaun
Howdy, Seth Caldwell wrote: Oh my god Toby, I just spent an hour because I was determined to learn about namespaces, and found a solution for you. =) [snip] if(event.result.RDF.*::Status.*::presence.(@*::lang==”en”)==”Offline”) status = “Online”; Nice one Seth. Here is another

[flexcoders] e4x question

2007-08-30 Thread grimmwerks
Finally got my httprequest to work, but the results come back as xml; I was hoping to use e4x (cause I used to be all about xfactorstudio's xpath classes) -- but I'm curious how I'd get the toplevel 'success' response: results successfalse/success user_id/ errorcity can't be

Re: [flexcoders] e4x question

2007-08-30 Thread grimmwerks
Sorry; nevermind, got it: xml.success; the root (results) isn't needed.