Thanks, that works for me. I think while searching for a solution I read that Mozilla's javascript engine extends E4X to support "delete" with XMLList objects which I think should be part of the spec if it's not. The intuitive thing to do would be to say "delete xmlNode.children();" and not have to worry about looping.
Aaron --- In [email protected], "Tracy Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 >
