On 2006-05-18, at 19:20 EDT, J Crowley wrote:
> Okay. I'll give you a rough example:
>
> So, say you have an XML file datafile.xml with the following data:
>
> <mydata>
> <item>Herring</item>
> <item>Ski-ball</item>
> <item>Hornet leg</item>
> <item>Pie</item>
> <item>Femur of Michael Madsen</item>
> </mydata>
>
> In the Laszlo app, you could do:
>
> <dataset name="randomThings" src="datafile.xml" type="http"
> request="true"/>
> <datapointer name="randomDP" xpath="randomThings:/mydata" />
>
> <method event="oninit">
> var size = randomDP.getNodeCount();
> for(var i = 1; i <= size; i++){
> randomDP.setXPath('randomThings:/mydata[1]/item[' + i + ']');
> randomDP.setNodeAttribute('num', i);
> }
> </method>
>
> And then to reference (for instance):
>
> randomDP.setXPath('randomThings:/mydata[1]/item[3]');
> var position = randomDP.xpathQuery('@num');
What would randomDP.xpathQuery('position()') return?
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