[osflash] E4X question

[jake varghese]

do you have an example of the XML you need to parse?  That would help 
with your example.


thanks.

Jake Varghese
CEO / Lead Developer
Flvorful
www.flvorful.com
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Alias™ wrote:
> Thanks Jake.
>
> Cool, that clears things up a bit. My problem is that I need to find 
> all the items of a certain type in a document, but I also need to 
> understand their context, because I need to build a tree structure. Is 
> there any way to get the context of the returned item? Like an xml 
> equivalent of movieclip.parent ?
>
> Or maybe I should just make my own recursive function and do that. 
> Gah. I hate recursion...
>
> Cheers,
> Alias
>
> On 15/11/2007, * jake varghese* <osflash at flvorful.com 
> <mailto:osflash at flvorful.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Alias,
>
>
>     It is a deep, recursive search. 
>
>     Example:
>
>     document..item
>
>     That will find all <item> nestings in the XML document.
>
>     You can limit the search by recursing farther down.
>
>     *document.orders..item
>     *will find all *items* that are nested inside of an *order *tag.
>
>
>     hope that helps.
>
>
>     Thanks,
>
>
>     Jake Varghese
>     CEO / Lead Developer
>     Flvorful
>     www.flvorful.com <http://www.flvorful.com>
>     office: 877-821-8022 x701
>     cell: 512-289-3916
>
>
>     Alias™ wrote:
>>     Hi guys,
>>
>>     Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'm finding it hard to get a
>>     straight answer on this.
>>
>>     The ".." operator in E4X, yeah?
>>
>>     What's going on there? Is it a deep recursive search, a single level
>>
>>     search, or what? Does it go through the whole document, or is it only
>>     for the descendants of the current context? The documentation is so
>>     vague and the W3C spec isn't much help either..
>>
>>     thanks in advance,
>>
>>     Alias
>>
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