Try this: var xmlStr:XML = new XML(str); Alert.show(xmlStr.descendants.length().toString());
HTH, -Ravi On Aug 6, 2:18 pm, Preetham Hegde <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > Say for a given xml we can find the count using its inbuilt method *length() > * > > Find a example, may help u.. > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; > layout="absolute" creationComplete="initApp()"> > <mx:Script> > <![CDATA[ > import mx.controls.Alert; > > private var str:String = > "<page><header>HEADER-1</header><body>BODY-1</body><header>HEADER-2</header><body>BODY-2</body></page>"; > > private function initApp():void{ > var xmlStr:XML = new XML(str); > Alert.show(xmlStr.body.length().toString()); > > } > ]]> > </mx:Script> > > </mx:Application> > > > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:04 AM, adrianwonder <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi everyone > > > does anybody knw how to count the number of tags from a XML file? for > > example... > > > <page> > > <header>HEADER-1 > > </header> > > <body> > > BODY-1 > > </body> > > <header> > > HEADER-2 > > </header> > > <body> > > BODY-2 > > </body> > > </page> > > > If we wanted to count the number of body tags from this XMl file using > > flex, we should get the result 2. > > > Any ideas or suggestions? > > > Adrian > > -- > Regards, > Preetham Hegde > _______________________________________________ > But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Flex India Community" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/flex_india?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
