Actually, Anthony, the "real" data isn't pets at all. I was just abstracting it for the list. But it's still relevant.
I'm actually rendering a table, with rows (dogs) of cells (TextFields). And a horizontal rule (the bird) may or may not appear before each row. So traversing my nodes, if traversing the XML, it iterates to a <row>, render out those TextField instances, and if it's a <line>, render the line instance. When I post, for better or worse, I usually try to simplify as much as possible the concepts I'm trying to find out about. Thanks for your efforts. > looking at your structure, i am assuming of course that you would not have a sub element of dog in an element of dog, so two dots should work fine. I'd never have a dog within a dog. I can't believe I just typed that. - MM _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

