xmllist

How can I convert a simple XMLList to an Array of Strings without a loop?

How can I convert the following XMLList to an Array of Strings without using a loop? <labels> <label>All</label> <label>your</label> <label>base</label> <label>are</label> <label>belong</label> <label>to</label> <label>us.</label> </labels> I want this result: ["All","your","base","are","belong","to","us."...

get the index of first element to mach a condition in an XMLListCollection Object.

I have an XMLListCollection object that contains items with an ID property. I want to find one particular item by id and then get it's index in the collection. This is done to be able to tell the comboBox (whose dataProvider is the XMLListCollection) the index of the item to display. ...

Deep Nested XML

I am trying to display a list of items in a datagrid from an XMLList. <Series no="1"> <file> <filenum>1</epnum> <prodnum>4V01</prodnum> <title>Series #1 - File #1</title> </file> <file> <filenum>2</epnum> <prodnum>4V02</prodnum> <title>Series #1 - File #2</title> </file> </...

Delete XMLList element with a given index - Flex

How can I delete the element with a certain index in a Flex XMLList? ...

Illegal cyclic loop between nodes?

I am trying to loop through an XML file. As for the first loop everything works fine, but when the program enters the second loop it gives an error saying that TypeError: Error #1118: Illegal cyclical loop between nodes. at XML/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::appendChild() Can anyone help me regarding this issue and suggest how to ...

Create XMLList containing multiple nodesets

Hi All, I have scoured the internet trying to find an answer to this...I must be asking the wrong question?! <a> <b> <c/> <c/> </b> <a> <b> <c/> </b> </a> </a> var x:XMLList = node.a | node.b.c; <-- compiler error var x:XMLList = node.a || node.b.c; <-- nothing and probably not correct syntax I want a | ...

Flex 3 combobox: filter XMLListCollection datasource

(I'm using Cairngorm) I have a combobox that displays items form an XMLListCollection that's in my model. I want to only view the items (XML) whose "sent" properties is false.. like item.sent == 'false'. This filter must apply only to this specific combobox, not everything that's bound to the XMLListCollection source. And of course it mu...

Cannot assign to a non-reference value

Hello everybody, I have a strange problem, I have a XMLList with elements who have the attribute position from 0 to x. When I want to add text to a element of that XMLList by the following statement, I get a error message: textElements.(@position == columnIndex) = "anyString"; 1050: Cannot assign to a non-reference value. What i...

How can you tell if an XMLlist object in AS3 contains a node?

How can you tell if an XMLlist object in AS3 contains a specific node? For ex: you have this XML file <items> <item>one</items> </items> And want to check if in this file exists a child with tag <pp>? ...

Flash AS3 - XMLList - Counting occurances of element in XMLList and showing result.

I have an XMLList 'Keywords', which consists of about 30 elements. I want to count the number of unique keywords in the List, and how often they occur. Then display the top 3 most occuring keywords. There's probably a simple sorting/count function to carry this out, however, i'm quite new to as3 so please forgive my naivety. Cheers. ...

Flex - Issues retrieving an XMLList

Hello! I'm having a problem retrieving a XMLList and I don't understand why. I have an application that is running properly. It uses some data from two xml files called division.xml and store.xml. I noticed that I have some data in division.xml that should be in store.xml, so I did a copy/paste of the data from one file to the other. T...

Flex: Listening for CollectionEvent in custom component

(EDIT: I've edited my question to make it simpler, sorry if some answers are out of context) I have prepared a reduced test case for my question: I'm trying to create a custom component which is being fed with XML data coming from the server. My problem is that the CollectionEvent listener doesn't get fired and thus labels no...

Flash AS3: Using "string" to pass in E4X XML querry

I want to be able to do something like var XMLquerry:String = "a1.a2.a3"; var parserVal:XML = parserMethod(XMLquerry); // or var parserVal:XMLList = parserMethod(XMLquerry);` and get an output something like <a3>Some value</a3> Important: And I want to be able to replace the output at a1.a2.a3 so using decedents is out of question...

Actionscript Filtering XMLLists (Hierarchy) Best Practices?

I have been trying to decide what the best way to filter a set of data for a tree view is. The filters are in the following XML format: (sometimes) Filtering two datasets: > AND So I've been thinking about writing special conditions for the following, which are required at times because som...

Whats the right / best way to filter HierachalData in Actionscript that consists of varying filters, how they apply, and differing hierarchal datasets

I have been trying to decide what the best way to filter a set of data for a tree view is. The filters are in the following XML format: using periods instead of carots .Category. .FilterCategory(sometimes) FilterAgainstAttribute, FilterDataToCompare, FilterCategory. .Filter Attributes(FilterAgainstAttribute, FilterDataToCompare, Filter...

Again, Flex 4, Actionscript Complex data filtering of XMLList filter and data-sets with special conditions.

So I tried to format this properly the first time, but it published and all the stuff in carets wasn't parsed properly, so I'll try again: I have been trying to decide what the best way to filter a set of data for a tree view is. The filters are in the following XML format: using periods instead of carots Filterin...