But that is what I am trying to do.... as I go along I am going through the xml line by line (of course) so as I go line by line, I need a way to find out who this node belongs to and where it should be.... Is it a sibling of a prevoius node or a child of a child....
________________________________________ From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of kennethkawam...@gmail.com [kennethkawam...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 2:06 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] xml: counting parents I don't think you need to know the depth of the node in order to create a chart because you can traverse the XML and generate the chart as you go along. But if you need to know the deapth: function transformXMLWithParentCount(original:XML, xml:XML, n:uint):void { for(var i:uint = 0, len:uint = xml.children().length(); i < len; i++){ original..*.(@name == xml.children()[...@name && @title == xml.children()[...@title)....@parent = n; transformXMLWithParentCount(original, xml.children()[i], n + 1); } } var testXML:XML = <person name="Ted" title="director of the world"> <person name="Bob" title="deputy director of the world"> <person name="Jim" title="Manager - North America"> <person name="Sampson" title="Lead - Western States"/> <person name="Sophia" title="Lead - Eastern States"/> </person> <person name="Sally" title="Manager - South America"/> <person name="Sarah" title="Manager - Africa"/> </person> </person>; transformXMLWithParentCount(testXML, testXML, 1); trace(testXML); Trace: <person name="Ted" title="director of the world"> <person name="Bob" title="deputy director of the world" parent="1"> <person name="Jim" title="Manager - North America" parent="2"> <person name="Sampson" title="Lead - Western States" parent="3"/> <person name="Sophia" title="Lead - Eastern States" parent="3"/> </person> <person name="Sally" title="Manager - South America" parent="2"/> <person name="Sarah" title="Manager - Africa" parent="2"/> </person> </person> But this fails when you have two or more people with identical name and title: you should create unique ID for each person :) -- Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ On 22 March 2010 17:33, Lehr, Theodore <ted_l...@federal.dell.com> wrote: > Perhaps I do have a bigger issue (actually, I have LOTS of issues ;-), but > the reason I need to know the depth is my thought was to use that as a means > of assisting in layout.... for example, say you have the follwing xml: > > <person name="Ted" title="director of the world"> > <person name="Bob" title="deputy director of the world"> > <person name="Jim" title="Manager - North America"> > <person name="Sampson" title="Lead - Western States"/> > <person name="Sophia" title="Lead - Eastern States"/> > </person> > <person name="Sally" title="Manager - South America"/> > <person name="Sarah" title="Manager - Africa"/> > </person> > </person> > > And you used this to create an organizational flow chart... my thought was to > use the depth to figure out where the names should go... I have thought about > how to do this 12,002 ways so my head is getting muddled.... > > ________________________________________ > From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com > [flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Steven Sacks > [flash...@stevensacks.net] > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 1:15 PM > To: Flash Coders List > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] xml: counting parents > > I think you mean ancestors. A node can only have one parent. Parents can have > many children. > > I think you have a bigger issue, though. Why do you need to know the depth of > an > xml node? I can't think of a single example that I would need that > information. > > > On 3/22/2010 9:27 AM, Lehr, Theodore wrote: >> I am still trying to find a way to see where a child is within the xml - on >> what level... is it possible to count a nodes parents? >> >> So if I had: >> >> <person att="1"> >> <person att="2"> >> <person att="3"/> >> <person att="4"/> >> </person> >> </person> >> >> 1 would return that it has 0 parents, 2 would say it has 1 parent, 3& 4 >> would say they have 2 parents.... >> >> hope that makes sense.... >> >> Ted _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders