Flex XML parsing

[scoobasteve1982]

Hi there,

I'm programming in AS3 with Flex Builder 3 and have a question. I'm parsing XML that has many different node names. To make my life easier I have these node names in an array. I want to parse the array, grab blocks of XML that coorespond to the sections as stored in the array. This bombs out however and doesn't seem to be possible. Here's an example:

Demo XML:

<website>
   <health>
        <page num="1" type="link" />
        <page num="2" type="url" />
   </health>
   <safety>
        <page num="1" type="link" />
        <page num="2" type="url" />
   </safety>
</website>

As shown above I want to access the sections health and safety where each are their own indicy in the array. Here's my AS3 code and flex.

private var siteSections:Array = new Array("health","safety");

for (var i:Number = 0; i < this.siteSections.length; i++) {   // we want to iterate over all the sections
// this.currXML contains the block of website XML
for each (var currentPage:XML in this.currXML.siteSections[i].page) {

if (currentPage.@id == 0) {
	this.siteTree += "<folder label=\""+currentPage.@id+"\" section=\""+siteSections[i]+"\" isleftnav=\"\"></folder>";
}

}

}

If you see above the values stored in siteSections are going to be dynamically listed to pull in the right section from the approp. index in the array. I get no results back. I even tried converting the value in siteSections to an XMLNode but that didn't work either. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[jim_morrison3]

You dont need to use an array to store names of nodes of xml file, using NameSpace you can directly access the xml nodes by their names.

[Dijup]

jim_morrison3

do u have any resource that you can share with us regarding the flex.

i think u know i am a flash programmer and i am very curious about FLEX.

[jim_morrison3]

jim_morrison3

do u have any resource that you can share with us regarding the flex.

There are many online resources to learn Flex, I dont know if I have any resource as such as I learned Flex just by practicing and working on live projects.

[Dijup]

i think it will be grate help if u provide us some help link for flex.

[[Paul Ferrie]]

i think it will be grate help if u provide us some help link for flex.

Flex help tutorials
Google is your friend.

[Dijup]

Flex help tutorials
Google is your friend.

we all know that there are many things in google but my fren google is not the world.

[[Paul Ferrie]]

It's the first place i start before posting for help or when i am giving help and advice on the dev forums.