Did you notice that Tracy had an error in his syntax? Did you fix it?
_xmlVa = testID.result. (@now=='today' )[0];
should have been:
_xmlVar = testID.result. (@now=='today' )[0];
ie. He forgot the "r" on the end.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, - - <sailorse...@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Tracy, I get "An Internal build error..."
> with:
>
> text="{_xmlVar.date}"
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> -David
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Tracy Spratt <tspr...@...>
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2009 1:03:41 PM
> Subject: RE: [flexcoders] XML - What var type can I use for my XML
nodes?
>
>
> [Bindable]public var _xmlVar:XML;
>
> private function init():void{
> _xmlVa = testID.result. (@now=='today' )[0]; //NOTE the array[0]
brackets.
>
>
> All e4x expessions return an XMLList, even if there is only one
node, so you must specify that node toput it in an XML variable.
> Tracy Spratt
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> ________________________________
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> From:flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com[mailto: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
] On Behalf Of sailorsea21
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:28 AM
> To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
> Subject:[flexcoders] XML - What var type can I use for my XML nodes?
>
> Hi everyone, I have the following:
>
> <mx:XML id="testID" format="e4x" source="xml/ test.xml" />
> <mx:Text text="{testID. result.(@ now=='today' ).date}"/ >
>
> What var type can I use for "testID.result. (@now=='today' )" to simply
> my text string?
>
> I would like to have the following:
>
> [Bindable]
> public var xmlvar:String = testID.result. (@now=='today' );
>
> <mx:Text text="{xmlvar. date}"/>
>
> Thanks.
>
> David
>
