will that return it's immediate parent or the one all the way at the top? so tempXMLList = courseList.klass.depts.dept.(name==needle).parent()
returns klass and not depts - right? Thanks, hoyt --- In [email protected], "Tracy Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > .parent() will return the parent node. > > Tracy > > > > ________________________________ > > 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 >
