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I feel like I've seen something like this before, but not sure where and searches aren't turning up anything useful. A library like this would evaluate xpath-like string expressions that would resolve to references to actual components (if they exist) in a Flex application's display list tree.

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these might help:

http://code.google.com/p/xpath-as3/wiki/GettingStarted

http://flexcomps.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/xpath-with-as3/

http://apdevblog.com/actionscript3-e4x-and-xpath/

http://lab.arc90.com/2010/04/28/actionscript-3-xpath-library/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1608969/how-can-i-use-xpath-with-as3-and-get-a-result-that-still-reffereced-to-the-xmldoc

Eugene
how does it apply to searching the display list ?
David
Ditto. Doesn't answer the question.
Julian
yeah, but its a good start to write own class of thing you want, so get the current UI classes and try to encapsulate them in your new class
Eugene