There is no Object.appendChild(), or Object.insertChildBefore(), or Object.insertChildAfter(), or Object.children(), or Object.parent(), or....
If that is indeed the argument, then I think it is a "foolish consistency". But that is just my emotional opinion, I do not even pretend to think at that level of design. I'm a coder, in the end, I'll work within the language. Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Harui Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 5:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [flexcoders] How to filter out nodes from an XMLList? I think their argument is that there is no Object.delete() either. To me, the whole point of E4X is to get at XML more like it was an object. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracy Spratt Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 2:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [flexcoders] How to filter out nodes from an XMLList? I think the key in that is using the ordinal index into the XML list. I know Adobe is following the ecma specifications, but someone needs to slap those ecma guys for not providing an XML.delete() method. Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracy Spratt Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 5:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [flexcoders] How to filter out nodes from an XMLList? I have used this function to delete the child nodes of a function. I think that you could replace the "children()" with any e4x expression: private function deleteChildren(xmlNode:XML):void { var xlChildren:XMLList = xmlNode.children(); for (var i:int=xlChildren.length()-1;i>=0;i--) { delete xlChildren[i]; //so remove all the children } }//deleteChildren Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ambrice Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 4:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] How to filter out nodes from an XMLList? I want to delete all nodes in an XML/XMLList that match a filter. Something like: delete myxml..employee.(@name == "Bob"); However I get an error saying you can't use delete on an XMLList. I tried: for each (var node:XML in myxmllist) { delete node; } But I get an error about not being able to delete a staticly assigned variable or something like that. There also doesn't seem to be a node.remove() method or anything handy like that. Actionscript's E4X implementation seems to think that you would only want to add nodes to an XML. Any ideas? Thanks, Aaron
