I've never used the attribute syntax you're using, so I'm not familiar with
it, but in your first employee example this syntax returned the matching
node, have you tried it?
debugModel.employees.node.(@display == "Employee First Name")
looks like you added another level in your latest example so for that case
this should return the node:
debugModel.group.(@label == "Employees").node.(@label == "Employee First
Name")
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Derrick Anderson <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> thanks guys, i'm sure that my xml is valid, i've refined what i'm trying
> to do here a bit
>
> public var debugModel:XML =
> <mergefields label="Merge Fields">
> <group label="Employees">
> <node label="Employee First Name"
> data="Employee_234234-234234-234234-234234" />
> <node label="Employee Last Name"
> data="Employee_11111-111111-111111-111111" />
> <node label="Last Performance Note Date"
> data="Employee_234234-234234-234234-234234" />
> <node label="Login"
> data="Employee_234234-234234-234234-234234" />
> <node label="Login Link"
> data="Employee_234234-234234-234234-234234" />
> </group>
> ...
>
> what i'm trying to do is find any node that has a certain label, like so
>
> var fieldNode:XMLList = debugModel.children().node.(attribute("label") ==
> "Employee First Name");
>
> and no matter what i try it is not working, what it seems to be doing is
> returning me all children of the node i'm looking for (there are none). if
> I give that node some arbitrary child nodes, then the node is returned with
> it's children, what gives?.
>
> d.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Varun Shetty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > make sure that your xml is wellformed
> >
> > it did work for me.
> > ------------------- code ------------------------
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";
> > layout="vertical"
> > initialize="runthis();">
> > <mx:Script>
> > <![CDATA[
> >
> > public var debugModel:XML = <mergefields display="Merge
> > Fields">
> > <employees display="Employees">
> > <node display="Employee First Name"
> > data="Employee_234234-234234-234234-234234" />
> > <node display="Employee Last Name"
> > data="Employee_234234-234234-234234-234234" />
> > <node display="Employee First Name"
> > data="Employee_1212121-121212-12121-12112121" />
> > <node display="Employee Last Name"
> > data="Employee_1212121-121212-12121-12112121" />
> >
> > </employees>
> > </mergefields>;
> >
> > public function runthis():void {
> > var fieldNode:XMLList =
> > debugModel.employees.node.(attribute("display") == "Employee First Name");
> > trace(fieldNode);
> > }
> > ]]>
> > </mx:Script>
> > </mx:Application>
> > ------------------- code ------------------------
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Derrick Anderson <
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > can someone please explain why this does not return an XMLList?
> > >
> > > public var debugModel:XML = <mergefields display="Merge Fields">
> > > <employees display="Employees">
> > > <node display="Employee First Name"
> > > data="Employee_234234-234234-234234-234234" />
> > > <node display="Employee Last Name"
> > > data="Employee_234234-234234-234234-234234" />
> > > .....
> > >
> > >
> > > var fieldNode:XMLList =
> > > debugModel.employees.node.(attribute("display") == "Employee First Name");
> > >
> > > but this does...
> > >
> > > public var thePeople:XML = <people>
> > > <person name="Mims Wright" suffix="III">
> > > <age>27</age>
> > > <aka>Mims H Wright</aka>
> > > <aka>Teh AWesoeomes!</aka>
> > > <bio></bio>
> > > </person>
> > > .....
> > >
> > > var fieldNode:XMLList = thePeople.person.(attribute("suffix") ==
> > > "III");
> > >
> > > i've tried a million different variations and i cannot get it to work
> > > with my XML- what am i doing wrong here?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > d.
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
