XML troubles...

[jmacnak]

Alright, sorry for all the problems.

What I have been working towards is making a menu that loads using xml. Then when a button is pressed, i want to assemble a new menu and tween it in. My problem has been going to a certain location in the xml to load all of the button below a certain one.

<?xml version="1.0" enocoding="UTF-8"?>
<Base>	
	<Spacer>		
		<MainButton Name="About Kkthxbai" Content="test.swf" >
			<MainButton Name="test1" Content="test.swf" />
			<MainButton Name="susubmenu" Content="test.swf" />
		</MainButton>
		<MainButton Name="Portfolio" Content="test.swf" />
		<MainButton Name="Contact" Content="test.swf" />
		<MainButton Name="Store" Content="test.swf" />
		<MainButton Name="Inspiration" Content="test.swf" />	
		
	</Spacer>
		
</Base>

This is my xml just for testing purposes.

I have tried using xml[VariableHoldingXmlLocation].MainButton.length but if the variable held a string of "Spacer.MainButton[0]" it would not return 2 but instead look for a Spacer.MainButton[0] node. So if anyone has an idea on how to make it realize that periods are not part of the name please respond.

After failing with this, I have tried to search the xml by using the name attribute but have come up empty. After looking at 2 dozen E4X tutorials, I have tried using

var nodelist:XMLList = xml.descendants.(attribute("Name") == "About Kkthxbai");
trace(nodelist.length() );

But everytime I do this I still get 0 even though there is a node with the attribute of About Kkthxbai : <MainButton Name="About Kkthxbai" Content="test.swf" >

I have also tried var nodelist:XMLList = xml.descendants.(@Name == "About Kkthxbai");

So any help is appreciated on a better way to do this, or a fix to my searching xml.