Hi,

I am using the XMLParser Xtra within a director 8.5 movie, and I'm
outputting the parsed XML to a lingo list with the makeList command.

This produces large multi dimensional lists that I have to work with,
it's a pain to bug fix, but that's not the current issue.

Although I will always be 99.9% sure that the xml layout will always be
the same, I would like to check that a specific list element exists
before trying to access it and protect myself against any "index out of
range errors".

The list element I am accessing (for example) may look like this:
theList[1][2][4][2][1][1]

Is there any way I can check that this list element exists, apart from
doing a huge nested if / loop to check the count of each dimension
before moving onto the next dimension if the count is >= the element I
want?  Something like "if varExists(theList[1][2][4][2][1][1]) then".

A nested if would be fine for 1 or 2 accesses, but I need to access
potentially hundreds of elements.

Thanks

Tim

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