Bit confused.

[Shad0w]

Here is the contents of a small test xml file I created, - note i've just replaced the square brackets with standard ones so it'll show up on the board.

(?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?)
(xmlbody)
   (userdata)
      (name)Joe Bloggs(/name)
      (age)20(/age)
      (email)J.Bloggs@something.com(/email)
   (/userdata)
(/xmlbody)

Here is the actionscript I am using, (taken from a tutorial I found here somewhere but altered a bit)-

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myXML = new XML();
myXML.onLoad = convertXML;
status = "Loading data...";
myXML.load("xmltest.xml");
function convertXML () {
    if (this.loaded) {
        status = "Data loaded.";
    }
    mainTag = new XML();
    elementTag = new XML();
    articleList = new Array();
    elementList = new Array();
    // first get a handle on the first actual element in the document.
    // note we skip to the nextSibling element, since the first element
    // is a document definition tag.
    mainTag = this.firstChild.nextSibling;
    // make sure we have the right parent tag.  Do this by looking at the nodeName property
    // for this object.  This will correspond exactly to the <nodeName>, where nodeName is replaced
    // with the name of your xml tag
    if (mainTag.nodeName.toLowerCase() == "xmlbody") {
        // if we have a match, we collect all of the articles beneath it as an array of xml objects
        articleList = mainTag.childNodes;
        // now we loop over all the articles and look for the tags we are looking for...
        status = "";
        for (i=0; i<=articleList.length; i++) {
            // initialize a couple of variables to hold xml data we want displayed
            name = "";
            age = "";
            email = "";
            if (articleList[i].nodeName.toLowerCase() == "userdata") {
                // we get the child node array beneath the articles, aka the meat and potatoes we are after
                elementList = articleList[i].childNodes;
                // and loop through that looking for the data we need
                for (j=0; j<=elementList.length; j++) {
                    elementTag = elementList[j];
                    elementType = elementTag.nodeName.toLowerCase();
                    if (elementType == "name") {
                        name = elementTag.firstChild.nodeValue;
                    } else {
                        if (elementType == "age") {
                            age = elementTag.firstChild.nodeValue;
                        }
                    }
                }
                mydata += "Data: "+name+"Age= "+age;
            }
        }
    }
}

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As you can see in my xml document, I do not have a document type definition, so logically I replaced the,

mainTag = this.firstChild.nextSibling;

with,

mainTag = this.firstChild;

Problem is, this doesn't work. It still requires the .nextSibling on the end, when clearly I shouldn't need it.

What is going wrong here. Thanks for your help. Just thought I'd better get up to scratch on xml, having never touched it before.

Regards,
Shad0w
[Edited by Shad0w on 06-01-2001 at 10:02 AM]

[cheeseranger]

The following is the first child in the document

(?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?)

you are using nextsibling to pass by it to its next sibling, in this case {xmlbody}.

[Shad0w]

If that were true, then everything would be fine, unfortunately, it isn't.

Having read through a couple of threads on this board I've discovered that Flash recognises white space/carriage returns as nodes, therefor it is seeing the first carriage return as the .firstChild element, not as you suggested the (?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?).

Which means it is seeing the root tag (xmlbody in my case) as the .nextSibling

This makes sense now. Still a pain in the but though.

Cheers.