XML help

[_root.confused]

Hi, i have searched the web for days with no luck but i thought some of the flash gurus on this forum could help me =-)
I have an xml file which contains this,

<partOne>
</partOne>

Its basicaly empty.
However in flash it loads the xml into a variable, myXML.
I then have three variables in flash that i want to put into the xml file so if i traced the myXML from flash it would look like this,

<partOne>
<partTwo>
    <infoOne> variableOne </infoOne>
    <infoTwo> variableTwo </infoTwo>
    <infoThree> variableThree </infoThree>
<partTwo>
</partOne>

and after i run the code again it looks like this,

<partOne>
<partTwo>
    <infoOne> variableOne </infoOne>
    <infoTwo> variableTwo </infoTwo>
    <infoThree> variableThree </infoThree>
<partTwo>
<partTwo>
    <infoOne> variableOne </infoOne>
    <infoTwo> variableTwo </infoTwo>
    <infoThree> variableThree </infoThree>
<partTwo>
</partOne>

Thanks for your time and i hope you can help me
Chris

[MyFriendIsATaco]

I think you're leaving out a key ingredient. What code is running to cause that? And what do you expect your result to be?

[Awoogamuffin]

Heya!

Though I'm not entirely sure what it is you want to do, I think you'll want something like this:

//your original XML
var myXML:XML =
<partOne>
</partOne>

//somewhere else, you make the extra item:
var newItem:XML = 
<partTwo>
   <infoOne> variableOne </infoOne>
   <infoTwo> variableTwo </infoTwo>
   <infoThree> variableThree </infoThree>
</partTwo>

myXML.appendChild(newItem); 

This is using the E4X approach to playing with XML. I've been working a lot in XML lately, but in Flex. I imagine it works in Flash as well. I recommend you carefully read the documentation on how to use XML here:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/htm...th_XML_03.html

You'll see that there are a lot of really powerful tools for reading and editing XMLs.

I hope that's more or less what you were looking for..

[_root.confused]

Thanks Awoogamuffin its nearly working, the only problem that i have now is that the xml doenst read the variable, ie i have a varieble called variableOne and then this could equal 'hello' as a sting, when i put

<infoOne> variableOne </infoOne>

and then trace it, thats how it comes out, it doesnt say,

<infoOne> hello </infoOne>

do you now how to fix this?

[Awoogamuffin]

Heya, try treating it as a string, something like this:

("<infoOne>"+variableOne+"</infoOne>");

Again, I'm too lazy to try this out, so forgive me if that doesn't work, but I'm pretty sure you can do that.

[_root.confused]

Thanks for the reply but it doesnt work, it just echoes, ("<infoOne>"+variableOne+"</infoOne>");

[Awoogamuffin]

Sorry, you need to use the XML() command to convert the string thing into an XML thing... I did this in flash and it worked:

var bleh:int = 9;

var myXML:XML = XML("<stuff><item>"+bleh+"</item></stuff>");

trace(myXML); 

and the trace output was:

<stuff>
  <item>9</item>
</stuff> 

As I said, i was too lazy to test all of this stuff earlier (the thing is, my local was doing 3€50 a cocktail for a limited time and I had to go). Now I think I've solved it, but I'm drunk, so I'm not so sure. If I'm right I want lots of hugs from everybody.

[_root.confused]

Was Perfect - And you were DRUNK =-) GENIOUS - HUGS all around!