I am not speaking of the tree, but of the xml. It has a root or it is not xml. I guess you just have showRoot="false" on the tree?
When accessing tree nodes, you almost always use the use the underlying dataProvider, which will be the e4x api. What do you want to do with the first-level child nodes? Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hmmmbeer3 Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Tree and ITreeDataDescriptor --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Tracy Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Then you have a root node right? There are several ways to get the first > level children from that. > No I dont - not always. For example, I have a Location Tree that starts off with the various states of Australia all peers with no root item.

