Oh my god Toby, I just spent an hour because I was determined to learn about namespaces, and found a solution for you. =)
After reading http://www.partlyhuman.com/blog/roger/using-e4x-with-xhtml-watch-your-namespaces I created blah.xml <test xmlns:b="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";><a b:c="d">bleh</a><a b:c="e">blah</a></test> Then loaded it with <mx:XML source="blah.xml" id="tx" format="e4x" /> Then ran this: mx.controls.Alert.show("value is: " +tx.a.(attributes()[0]=="d")); which alerted “value is: bleh”. We could also do this: mx.controls.Alert.show("value is: " +tx.a.(@*::c=="d")); Oh my god, right? So I put your original XML into blah.xml, then did this: mx.controls.Alert.show("value is: " +tx.*::Status.*::presence.(@*::lang=="en")); Guess what?! “value is: Away”!! We win. Change this code for (i=0; i < event.result.RDF.Status.presence.length; i++) { if(event.result.RDF.Status.presence[i]["xml:lang"] == "en") if(event.result.RDF.Status.presence[i]["value"] != "Offline") status = "Online"; to this code if(event.result.RDF.*::Status.*::presence.(@*::lang==”en”)==”Offline”) status = “Online”; wewt, Seth
