The double colon is the namespace accessor. But I do not really understand that example. Unless you can use a wildcard as a namespace?
I have managed to mostly avoid dealing with namespaces so far. Tracy Spratt, Lariat Services, development services available _____ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of luvfotography Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 8:06 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] xml parsing What does '*::' do in the following example: (can someone explain how this works, where aspectRatios ends up with 'widescreen') var aspectRatios:XMLList = atomXml..*::aspectRatio; where atomxml = <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?> <entry gd:etag="W/"C0QCQ347eCp7ImA9WxBbFkk."" xmlns="http://www.w3. <http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom> org/2005/Atom" xmlns:media="http://search. <http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/> yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:gd="http://schemas. <http://schemas.google.com/g/2005> google.com/g/2005" xmlns:yt="http://gdata. <http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007> youtube.com/schemas/2007"> <id>tag:youtube.com,2008:video:yNq5vC_EHAg</id> <published>2009-03-17T07:44:54.000Z</published> <yt:accessControl action="syndicate" permission="allowed" /> <gd:comments> <gd:feedLink href="http://gdata. <http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/yNq5vC_EHAg/comments?v=2> youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/yNq5vC_EHAg/comments?v=2" countHint="1031" /> </gd:comments> <media:group> <yt:aspectRatio>widescreen</yt:aspectRatio> <yt:duration seconds="232" /> <yt:uploaded>2009-03-17T07:44:54.000Z</yt:uploaded> <yt:videoid>yNq5vC_EHAg</yt:videoid> </media:group> <gd:rating average="4.794872" max="5" min="1" numRaters="3159" rel="http://schemas. <http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#overall> google.com/g/2005#overall" /> <yt:statistics favoriteCount="9429" viewCount="4563767" /> </entry>
