Creating childnodes vars

Question

Hello all
I have been passed a project that integrates XML with flash
and as I only have a limited knowledge of using XML I wondered if
anyone could offer some help on this question.
if you go to
this link it shows how
the file works and looks now which should help in my explanation.
At the top of the map there are next and previous buttons which
take you to different "divisions/ladders". These divisions are set
as the first childNode and within these are the different bits of
information that is shown at the bottom of the map (map name, clan
name, next match etc).
Now, the countries are set up as buttons so the information
is shown as you roll over each of them and this is where the
problem arises. If a new division is added then I will have to go
through each country (40+ and counting) and then change each
mention of the "division" childNode 10 times within each button. I
wondered if it was possible to set up this first childNode as a
variable that would only need to be changed once for the whole of a
new division rather than 400+ times.
An example is the following:
on (rollover) {
country=sd.childNodes[0].childNodes[8].childNodes[0].firstChild;
clan=sd.childNodes[0].childNodes[8].childNodes[2].firstChild;
field3=sd.childNodes[0].childNodes[8].childNodes[3].firstChild;
field4=sd.childNodes[0].childNodes[8].childNodes[4].firstChild;
field5=sd.childNodes[0].childNodes[8].childNodes[5].firstChild;
field7=sd.childNodes[0].childNodes[8].childNodes[7].firstChild;
field8=sd.childNodes[0].childNodes[8].childNodes[8].firstChild;
field9=sd.childNodes[0].childNodes[8].childNodes[9].firstChild;
field10=sd.childNodes[0].childNodes[8].childNodes[10].firstChild;
mapImage.loadMovie("
http://www.eurodomination.co.uk/cod2/images/maps/mp_leningrad_small.jpg");
As you can see this is one button's rollOver state so to
clarify is there a way to make a var that will get rid of the first
childNode as that is the only one that would change when a new
"division" is created and make a variable that says whenever the
player is at a certain frame/label/scene that it would know that it
is part of "division1" (childNodes[0]).
I hope this makes some sense but if not please let me know
and I'll try to clarify as much as possible. I just hope there may
be some solution that will save me many hours and neaten up the
coding.
Thanks in advance
James

Answer 1

kglad,
Thanks for looking at this issue with me.
As for additional code, there is none that makes any
reference to the variable. I check and see if it exists in an if
condition as posted above if it does not exists then it will lets
say call a method playA(). Else it will call a method
showButDontPlayA().
Nothing else makes a reference to it. So I was thinking that
because its being created inside of a method it gets cleaned up
right away once im out of the method.
Thinking of creating an array var at the top and then the
method call can just add to the array since im keeping track of
frames that are viewed. I dont think a var created at the top level
can be cleaned out since it was not dynamically created.
Do you know of any links to information on variable
persistence that you know of that are direct and not dozens of
pages of blah blah blah information?
thanks again.