Match XML attribute name to text box instance name

[Flash at Wand]

Hello! I have a list of items in XML that populate dynamic text boxes using the code below. I basically reference an attribute in the XML element to a specific instance name on a text box.

This works great for a few items, but I need to do this for several hundred, perhaps a thousand, items in an XML. Rather than copy & paste my code for each item and call out each specific text box and attribute value, is it possible to modify this code to match an instance name to the XML attribute value? In other words, one set of code that says "if the text box instance name is "x," provide the price of "x" from XML, but if the name is "y," provide the price of "y."

Thank you for your time!

My xml code (3 item sample):

<products>
    <info_source id="SQL">
        <item id="apples">$1.00</item>
        <item id="oranges">$2.00</item>
        <item id="bananas">$3.00</item>
    </info_source>
</products> 

My Actionscript:

links_xml = new XML();
links_xml.load("links.xml");
links_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
links_xml.onLoad = function(true) {
    if (true) {
        for (var i = 0; i<this.firstChild.childNodes.length; i++) {
            if (this.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.id == "SQL") {
                for (var s = 0; s<=this.firstChild.childNodes[i].childNodes.length-1; s++) {
                    if (this.firstChild.childNodes[i].childNodes[s].attributes.id == "apples") {
                        apples.text = this.firstChild.childNodes[i].childNodes[s].childNodes;
                    } else if (this.firstChild.childNodes[i].childNodes[s].attributes.id == "oranges") {
                        oranges.text = this.firstChild.childNodes[i].childNodes[s].childNodes;
                    } else if (this.firstChild.childNodes[i].childNodes[s].attributes.id == "bananas") {
                        bananas.text = this.firstChild.childNodes[i].childNodes[s].childNodes;
                    } 
                }
            }
        }
    }
}; 

[cessnajumpin]

private var txtFieldNameArray("apples", "oranges", "bananas");

private var txtFieldNameArray("apples",  "oranges", "bananas");

links_xml = new XML(); 
links_xml.load("links.xml"); 
links_xml.ignoreWhite = true; 
links_xml.onLoad = function(true) { 
    if (true) { 
        for (var i = 0; i<this.firstChild.childNodes.length; i++) { 
            if (this.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.id == "SQL") { 
            
				for(var j = 0; j < txtFieldNameArray.length; j++)
				{
                                   for (var s = 0; s<=this.firstChild.childNodes[i].childNodes.length-1; s++) { 
                                        if (this.firstChild.childNodes[i].childNodes[s].attributes.id == txtFieldNameArray[j]) { 
                                        txtFieldNameArray[j].text = this.firstChild.childNodes[i].childNodes[s].childNodes;
						}
					}
				}
            } 
        } 
    } 
};

[Flash at Wand]

Thank you for replying, Cessna.

I dropped your code into place but got an "Attribute used outside class" error. Any thoughts to get around that? Again, thank you for your time.

[cessnajumpin]

Is your constructor and everything set up correctly?

http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=505014

[Flash at Wand]

Thank you! Problem solved!