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________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hoytlee2000 Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 3:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] need help with XML predicate filtering Hello, I have an XML file which consists of a list of classes and it's attributes (teacher, length, category, etc., etc., ...) Classes can belong to different depts. I want to be able to grab all the classes and their attributes that are part of a certain dept. The dept nodes is a child of the class node. I can filter out the xml file to find all the nodes whose dept value equals the dept I am looking for, but I don't know how to return the main parent node. here is the xml file : <klasses> <klass id="0"> <title>klass A</title> <length unit="hr">1.5</length> <category>core</category> <depts> <dept> <name>art</name> </dept> <dept> <name>pe</name> </dept> <dept> <name>modeling</name> </dept> <dept> <name>animation</name> </dept> </depts> </klass> <klass id="1"> <title>klass B</title> <length unit="hr">1.5</length> <category>core</category> <depts> <dept> <name>r and d</name> </dept> <dept> <name>td</name> </dept> <dept> <name>lighting</name> </dept> <dept> <name>matte painting</name> </dept> </depts> </klass> ... ... ... </klasses> I get the xml file from: courseList = evt.result.klass // I want to get all klass objects that has "art" as one of the dept.name nodes var needle:String = "art" I try using this predicate filter but it only returns a XMLLIst that consists of <name>needle</name> tempXMLList = courseList.klass.depts.dept.(name==needle) what I want returned is: <klass> ... ... ... </klass> <klass> ... ... ... </klass> ... ... ... where inside <klass> ... </klass> at least one of the dept.name nodes is equal to "art" I know it's probably simple but I can't seem to get the syntax right. I've looked at a lot of examples but they don;t make sense to me and most don't deal with anything deeper than a single level. I can't seem to find any good documentation on predicate filtering either. I appreciate any help, its kinda got me stuck from moving forward on this development project. I am still a novice on all this stuff. Thanks. be well, Hoyt
