I'm not great with XML (That's more Tracy's forte) but shouldn't it be
trace(myADG.selectedItem.links.length);
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Mark" <mark.pusat...@...> wrote:
>
> I'm having an issue with finding the length of the number of children items
> in my ArrayCollection. A small part of the xml that is being pulled in is
> below. You'll see that I have a node <links> with a child or children node
> <link>. If I have 2 or more <link> nodes then the length comes back with the
> proper number, but if I only have 1 it comes back as undefined. Here's my
> basic function that I'm putting together now
>
> private function dgChanged(evt:Event):void {
> if (myADG.selectedItem.links != null) {
> trace(myADG.selectedItem.links.link.length);
> } else {
> trace ("NULL" );
> }
>
>
> <items>
> <item>
> <eID>4</eID>
> <eName><![CDATA[3 Event with link]]></eName>
> <sDate>1/2/2010</sDate>
> <eDate>2/18/2010</eDate>
> <sTime>12:00:00 PM</sTime>
> <eTime>3:00:00 PM</eTime>
> <description><![CDATA[Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the
> printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's
> standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a
> galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived
> not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting,
> remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the
> release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently
> with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of
> Lorem Ipsum.]]></description>
> <aName>AIT</aName>
> <cName>Learning</cName>
> <lName>UK</lName>
> <links>
> <link ID="1" description="description of the link"
> title="Apple" url="www.apple.com"/>
> </links>
> </item>
>
>
> Any ideas as to why I'm getting "undefined"?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
