If you're using Flash 8, XPath was already integrated into its library/API.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris W. Paterson Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 1:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] CDATA Html Text not working Great! That works! Thanks so much!! I'll look into that XPath... Maybe not for this project since it's on a tight deadline, but for the future! Thanks! Chris --- Alan MacDougall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris W. Paterson wrote: > > this.firstChild.childNodes[i].firstChild.childNodes[j].childNodes;--- this is how I am trying > to > > access the content of that node. > > > > First off, I'm guessing I should use .nodeValue? Will that give me the entire node with > > "<![CDATA[]]>"? Is it even possible to read the html value for html text? > > > > Yep, there's the problem. The content of an XML node is a node in itself > -- it's just a text node. It looks like this: > > <foo>my text</foo> > > <foo> --> part of node A > my text --> node B > </foo> --> part of node A > > > So to get the text inside that <foo> tag, let's say we have: > > var fooNode:XMLNode; > var textNode:XMLNode = fooNode.firstChild; > var myText:String = textNode.nodeValue; > myTextField.htmlText = myText; // now it should look right > > As you can see, the child node of <foo> is an XMLNode which contains the > text -- it's not the string itself. I've used CDATA in XML plenty of > times, and your HTML text fields will interpret the HTML as long as > you're getting the string value of the text node. > > As for all that confusing child.firstChild.childNodes[n].child business, > may I suggest XFactorStudios' excellent XPath implementation? > www.xfactorstudio.com -- and then you can specify your XML with simple > syntax like this: > > // gets an Array of XMLNodes; specifically, all <bar> inside a <foo>, > starting from rootNode > var nodes:Array = XPath.selectNodes(rootNode, "foo/bar"); > > It's a less confusing than manually walking the XML tree, and allows > some pretty complex searches once you really get into it. ( > http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath is very dense, but section 2 may give you an > example of XPath's power.) > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > To change your subscription options or search the archive: > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software > Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training > http://www.figleaf.com > http://training.figleaf.com > ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&c s=bz _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
