How can I determine the position of an XML instance in an XMLList in ActionScript3?

Question

What it says on the tin: I have an XMLList, and I want to find where in it a particular XML item falls. First index is good enough for my purposes.

Note that I have no problem writing a function to do this by hand... but I was hoping that the API has something buried somewhere that'll do it for me. I didn't see it, though.

Answer 1

Just loop through the xmllist until you find one that matches, then return the index in your loop (for loop with an index).

Answer 2

Without a code example it's a bit difficult to know what you're trying to do exactly, but maybe XML.childIndex() could the solution?