ActionScript 3.0 :: XML: Searching For Attribute?
Mar 7, 2011
I have a few different XML documents that get loaded into my app. What I would like to know how to do is search the incoming XML string for a certain attribute (apple or peach) then route its use to the correct location.example:
<boringExample1 apple ="somevalue" ... />
<boringExample2 peach="somevalue" ... />
I am not trying to read the value of the attribute but the name of attribute itself. if my XML string has apple attribute go here else if my XML string has peach attribute go there. I hope that makes sense
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I have gone thru the Kirupa's tutorial "Using XML in Flash CS3/AS3", and it helped a lot in my project. Now, I have a question in XML searching. If an attribute's value is say title="kirupa tutorial" and a user wanted to search only the word "kirupa", then how can i get this node of xml, which title is "kirupa tutorial"..
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I have 31 XML files, each containing words (A.xml for all the words beginning with the letter "A" and so on).The XML formatting is as follows:
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I have the routine working to search 1 data set but I can for the life of me think of how to do multiple data sets in one shot.
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Search games 2-5 for numbers 2 7 13 19 43 80 etc... Each number is in it's own input box.
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I looked at for each and for in loops but I am not seeing who to put it together yet.
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