Absolutely!

I just ran this:
var svg:XML = <svg><group><rect id="1" /><rect id="2" /></group><group><rect 
id="3" /><rect id="4" /></group></svg>;

var rects:XMLList = svg..rect;
trace(rects.toXMLString());

and got this in the console:
<rect id="1"/><rect id="2"/><rect id="3"/><rect id="4”/>


On Apr 12, 2016, at 12:42 AM, OmPrakash Muppirala <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yay!  That's fantastic news.
> 
> Just curious.  Will this case work?
> 
> var svg:XML = <svg>
>  <group>
>    <rect id="1" />
>    <rect id="2" />
>  </group>
>  <group>
>    <rect id="3" />
>    <rect id="4" />
>  </group>
> </svg>
> 
> var rects:XMLList = svg..rect;
> 
> //rects should contain all the rects in the svg, i.e.
> <rect id="1"/>
> <rect id="2"/>
> <rect id="3"/>
> <rect id="4"/>
> 
> Thanks,
> Om
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I made some great progress today.
>> 
>> I just compared the output of some pretty whacky xml processing in Flash
>> to the output using the JS XML classes and the output was pretty close!
>> 
>> There are definitely some issues I still need to work on (besides some
>> compiler issues in JIRA), but I’m really happy with it already. I expect to
>> be able to try and run some production code through the compiler in the
>> next week or so and see what happens.
>> 
>> On Apr 10, 2016, at 4:02 PM, Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I reached a milestone today with E4X. I have the first working test
>> which reads an XML literal, writes it back out to a string and writes the
>> value of an attribute using E4X notation in Javascript!
>>> 
>>> Over the next couple of weeks I expect to be fixing a lot of issues
>> related to XML and the better the test-case coverage we have, the better
>> the quality will be.
>>> 
>>> I’d like to put out a call for snippets of E4X code that people are
>> using in the wild so we can incorporate tests for as many use cases as we
>> can get.
>>> 
>>> If you have code snippets to contribute, please respond!
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Harbs
>>> 
>>> (P.S. There is currently a compiler issue with two of the XML methods,
>> so the XML.js file needs a bit of editing before it can be used. Hopefully
>> this issue will be fixed soon.)
>> 
>> 

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