Flash Mx: Xpath Counting Nodes

[Robtyketto]

Greetings,

Does anyone know how to peform counts with Xpath?

Here's what i've grasped so far i.e. making sure Ive installed xpath api and thats about it really!!

I've done a best guess as I cant find any info on the web so far (see below) there's no syntax errors and the variable questionscount is 'undefined'.

import mx.xpath.XPathAPI; 	
var titlePath:String = "//quiz/title/items/";
var questionscount:Number = count.nodeValue(titlePath);
trace (questionscount);

Does anybody knwo the syntax and can help me out?
Would also be interesting to know how to count where the node value of "//quiz/title/items/category" is "XXXX" etc..,

Thanks
Rob

[Robtyketto]

WOW, I found the syntax just need to work on it abit more ..

myData.firstChild.childNodes.length
http://saumyaray.wordpress.com/2006/...sh-xml-part-2/

Hope this helps other people too !

[renderhjs]

that tells you only how many siblings that node has not how many sub and sub-sub ect. thus total childs alltogether has.
ChildNodes will return you an array with XML Node elements- so in the end you count that array length

[Robtyketto]

Thanks for the reply.

I did some experimenting and further reading and now functions just as I want it too