Hey,
I'm trying to get all the child nodes for an element in an XML tree
given a node passed to a function as a string.
For example, given the xml:
<a>
<first>
<blah>...</blah>
<foo>...</foo>
<bar>...</bar>
</first>
<sec>
<b2lah>...</b2lah>
<f2oo>...</f2oo>
<b2ar>...</b2ar>
</sec>
</a>
that is stored in say : var xml XMLList = "<a> ..."
and I have a function trying to return all the child nodes when given
a certain element, how would I get the child nodes ? xml.. doesnt
work if its a string.
public function getChildNodes( name:String):XMLList
{
var x:XMLList = xml..name ; // doesnt work ! Looks for 'name' node
return x;
}
Assuming name:String = "sec" , I would want the function to return:
"
<b2lah>...</b2lah>
<f2oo>...</f2oo>
<b2ar>...</b2ar>
"
Is the only answer to iterate through the entire tree ? That seems
ridiculous ! I have a large xml tree, so I really dont want to
iterate through it each time.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks
