E4x - Variable is not defined

Question

Hi all,
I built an AIR app to store the contact info everyon in my office. The data comes from an XML file and it was all working until I started tinkering and broke it. To trace the problem I built a 20 line test app but still cant get it to work.
I have an xml file with the following structure (it has about 100 contact nodes):
<contactSheet>
   <contact>
      <firstName>Joe</firstName>
      <secondName>Bloggs</secondName>
      <country>UK</country>
      <office>Office Towers</office>
      <extension>000</extension>
      <directDial>000 000 000</directDial>
      <email>@work.com</email>
      <mobile>0123456789</mobile>
   </contact>
</contactSheet>
In my app I have an HTTPService with a result type of 'e4x'. On creationComplete I send this service and the result is processed by a method that sets up a var called contactData:
contactData = new XML(e.target.lastResult);
If I then trace contactData..contact or contactData..contact.country I get the results I would expect but then I try to trace only the contacts from a certain country using contactData..contact.(country == "UK") and I get an error saying Error #1065: Variable country is not defined.
I am sure that I have had this working before and there is nothing else happening in the build to break it so I am puzzled.
Any suggestions gratefully accepted.
Cheer

Answer 1

You need to do this (remember the @):
contactData..contact.(@country == "UK")
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