Simpler XML?

[leto2]

Okay, so the last post I put up was apparently a real poser, I'll ask a related question.

To access a node attribute in flash, we have to enter a string something along the lines of:

listItems(this.firstChild);
listItems(this.firstChild.nextSibling);
listItems(this.firstChild.nextSibling[2]);

Which can be quite a bit of code in the case of a listing of states and countries from an xml like:

US>
AL Title="Alabama" URL="http://Alabama"/>
AK Title="Alaska" URL="http://Alaska"/>
AR Title="Arkansas" URL="http://Arkansas"/>
AZ Title="Arizona" URL="http://Arizona"/>
/US>

EURO>
X Title="" URL="http://"/>
/EURO>

The intuitive naming of nodes in xml is great, but why do we then have to refer to them as lines and lines of:

listItems(this.firstChild.nextSibling[45]);
listItems(this.firstChild.nextSibling[46]);
listItems(this.firstChild.nextSibling[47]); ?

Can't we just say something like:

listItems(this.US.AL);
listItems(this.US.AK);
listItems(this.US.AR); and so on, using those intuitive node names?

I'm putting the node attributes into variables for a world map, lotsa states and countries.

Thanks!

[VAYKENT]

There are shortcuts... use the attribute name 'id', and give the node a value that is unique among all of the other nodes. You can then refer to it that way.

See this thread:
http://www.flashkit.com/board/showth...hreadid=297324