[RESOLVED] XML nodes problem

[nmuta]

This is pretty basic , and I've done this before but some now now it doesn't seem to be working....

My xml looks like this :

<thing>
<title>blah </title>
<colors>
<color>red</color>
<color>gold</color>
<color>green</color>
</colors>
</thing>

function ParseObject(printable:XML):void { 
        
         
         //loop through all of the color child nodes. 
            var colors:XMLList = printable.colors ;
                     
            for each(var node in colors){
                trace ( node.childNodes); ///produces nothing. 
                
                for (var i = 0; i < node.childNodes.length; i++){
                    trace (node.childNodes[i]) ;
                    trace("hey"); //produces nothing
                    }                
                }

colors is a valid xml object, when I trace (printable) I get the full xml tree in the console, and when I trace (colors) , I get the colors node. But it's not getting me each color.

That's what I need. clearly I'm not extracting the child nodes properly......

Any hints? I'm sure it's something obvious.

[nmuta]

Ok, had to dig through some old code but I resolved this.

For anyone with the same question, here's the answer....

to get the first child I can simply do

colors.color[0]

and to loop through all I can do

for (var i=0 ; i< printable.colors.child("*").length(); i++) {

[arkitx]

var xml:XML=new XML(
<thing>
<title>blah </title>
<colors>
<color>red</color>
<color>gold</color>
<color>green</color>
</colors>
</thing>);

ParseObject(xml);

function ParseObject(printable:XML):void {
    //loop through all of the color child nodes. 
    var colors:XMLList = printable.colors;
    for each (var node in colors) {
        trace(node.children().length());
        var child=node.children();
        trace(child);///produces nothing. 
        for (var i = 0; i <child.length(); i++) {
            trace(child[i]);
        }
    }
}

arkitx