Notice Flash 8 includes Xpath as a native, check livedocs or your help
documentation for details. But the XPath tool from xfactorstudio is an old
standby.
Regards,
Derek Lords
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Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:37:52 +0800
XPath. Beautiful! I've been looking for something like that! Thanks,
will
give it a shot! -Steve
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I've found this as version of xpath very very handy..
easy to implement and use also..
http://www.xfactorstudio.com/ActionScript/AS2/XPath/
>Thanks Jester, but databases are not my forte, to do it quickly I'd
>like to just use ActionScript only. Is there anyway I can just load
>specific sections of the XML or do I have to load the whole file into
>memory?
>
>On 05/01/06, JesterXL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>Does it have to stay in that format? Meaning, can you convert it and
throw
>>it into a database? Paging is still an effective methodology, and if
you
>>can throw it in a database, you can then do what Flash does best and
load
>>what you need on the fly.
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Jonathan Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>>Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:21 PM
>>Subject: [Flashcoders] Massive XML files and Flash
>>
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I find myself in a situation where I need to build a tool to analyse
>>lots of xml data. Thousands of records containing a lot of strings as
>>well as numericals. I'm sure there are lots of more suitable
>>applications and languages, but I the only one I know is Actionscript.
>>Luckily, I know it very well and am more than confident at parsing
>>XML; however, I've never delt with data on this scale before. So, I'm
>>interested to know if anyone has any experience of dealing with this
>>sort of build, and whether it is feasible to expect Flash to handle
>>it.
>>
>>More on the data: I need to cross-reference and check data accross 3
>>xml files. They are all big, but the biggest, by way of an example in
>>Excel form, has 25,000 records each with around 30 fields, often very
>>string heavy.
>>
>>Any tips would be greatly appreciated?
>>
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