once you've nagivated to the node you're wanting to look at you can use name().localName:
once example might be: var nodeName : String = XML(books.book[0]).name().localName; --- In [email protected], "guitarguy555" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a component that has a datagrid that is bound to an XMLList. > > I want to be able to extract the ID column of the grid but not > specifically hardcode the name of the XML node inside the component's > code. Sometimes this ID node value will be named differently. > > eg. <EmployeeID>, or <ManagerID> > > I can parse an XMLList to get the value of the ID like so: > > row = myXMLList[0]; > var ID:String = myXMLList.(EmployeeID == _selectedRowID)); > > But instead of specifically naming "EmployeeID" inside the component, > I would like to use a variable name here. > > What is the e4x syntax to extract a node name instead of it's > contents? >
