I can't seem to get that to work...
--- In [email protected], "Jason Hawryluk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Yes in that case you would, and before deleting the level 2 append
level3 to
> level 2's parent.
>
>
>
> Kind of (not at all tested) like this..
>
>
>
> for each (var item:XML in myxml..level2) {
> item.parent.append(item..level3);
>
> delete item;
>
> }
>
>
>
> you may actually need 2 loops one for the delete. If the above technique
> doesn't work try the copy()
>
>
>
> item.parent.append(item..level3.copy());
>
>
>
> sorry no time to actually test anything here.
>
>
>
> jason
>
>
>
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : [email protected]
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> part de phipzkillah
> Envoyé : mercredi 10 janvier 2007 21:58
> À : [email protected]
> Objet : [flexcoders] Re: XML manipulation
>
>
> That makes sense and I guess I should have rephrased my question. I
> have multiple levels of level1 and I need to preserve the hierarchy.
> I would assume you would need a for loop to do this. Any ideas?
>
> <level1>
> <level2>
>
> <level3/>
> <level3/>
> <level3/>
>
> </level2>
> </level1>
>
> <level1>
> <level2>
>
> <level3/>
> <level3/>
>
> </level2>
> </level1>
>
> Transformed to...
>
> <level1>
>
> <level3/>
> <level3/>
> <level3/>
>
> </level1>
>
> <level1>
>
> <level3/>
> <level3/>
>
> </level1>
> --- In [email protected], "Jason Hawryluk" <jh@> wrote:
> >
> > Yes; basically
> >
> > Grab level3 into an xmllist var
> >
> > delete level 2 append level 3 to level 1.
> >
> > var tempxml:XMLList = myxml..level3;
> > delete myxml.level2;
> > myxml.append(tempxml);
> >
> > the above code is off the top of my head. May and may not work :)
> >
> > jason
> >
> >
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : [email protected]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la
> > part de phipzkillah
> > Envoyé : mercredi 10 janvier 2007 21:28
> > À : [email protected]
> > Objet : [flexcoders] Re: XML manipulation
> >
> >
> > Ben,
> >
> > Thanks for your help. It works great!
> >
> > I have another question that I'm not sure if you will be able to
> > answer or not. If I have 3 levels of hierarchy in my XML and I want
> > to remove level 2 (but not its children - level 3) how would you go
> > about doing that? Eliminate level 2 while promoting level 3.
> >
> > <level1>
> > <level2>
> >
> > <level3/>
> > <level3/>
> > <level3/>
> >
> > </level2>
> > </level1>
> >
> > Transformed to...
> >
> > <level1>
> >
> > <level3/>
> > <level3/>
> > <level3/>
> >
> > </level1>
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "ben.clinkinbeard"
> > <ben.clinkinbeard@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Wow, I had no idea deleting a set of nodes would be this hard.
> > > Apparently this is how its done:
> > >
> > > for each(var node:XML in myXML..remove)
> > > {
> > > delete(myXML..remove[node.childIndex()]);
> > > }
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > > Ben
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In [email protected], "phipzkillah" <pkrasko@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > How can I remove a selection of children from an xml tree.
> > > >
> > > > var myXML:XML =
> > > > <root>
> > > > <cluster>
> > > > <remove>
> > > > <garbage/>
> > > > <garbage/>
> > > > <garbage>
> > > > <garbage1/>
> > > > <garbage2/>
> > > > <garbage3/>
> > > > </garbage>
> > > > </remove>
> > > > <remove>
> > > > <garbage>
> > > > <garbage1/>
> > > > <garbage2/>
> > > > </garbage>
> > > > <garbage/>
> > > > </remove>
> > > >
> > > > <keep>
> > > > <info/>
> > > > <info/>
> > > > <info>
> > > > <goodStuff/>
> > > > <goodStuff/>
> > > > <goodStuff>
> > > > <good1/>
> > > > <good2/>
> > > > </goodStuff>
> > > > </info>
> > > > </keep>
> > > > </cluster>
> > > > </root>
> > > >
> > > > ......................
> > > >
> > > > Now I want to keep all the good stuff.
> > > >
> > > > I want the final xml tree to look like this:
> > > > <root>
> > > > <cluster>
> > > > <keep>
> > > > <info/>
> > > > <info/>
> > > > <info>
> > > > <goodStuff/>
> > > > <goodStuff/>
> > > > <goodStuff>
> > > > <good1/>
> > > > <good2/>
> > > > </goodStuff>
> > > > </info>
> > > > </keep>
> > > > </cluster>
> > > > </root>
> > > >
> > > > I tried doing this with no luck:
> > > >
> > > > myXML = delete myXML..remove;
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas why that doesn't work?
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
