select to display table data.

Question

I'm having some trouble displaying some data with a <select>
What I am trying to do is to use <select> to displays the countries and have a table that shows the state selected (once as a heading), a list of all cities, country code, area code and phone numbers.
This is the xml structure:
<AccessNumbers>
    <AccessNumber>
        <country>Argentina</country>
        <city>Buenos Aires</city>
        <countryCode>54</countryCode>
        <areaCode>11</areaCode>
        <phone>52582114</phone>
    <AccessNumber>
<AccessNumbers>
The problem I have is that my xml has the countries and cities repeated multiple times so in my <select> I can't filter out duplicate countries. Also, don't understand how to tie the <select> info to the table to display the correct data in the table based on the country selected.
Can anyone help?

Answer 1

Olavarrieta wrote:
The problem I have is that my xml has the countries and cities repeated
multiple times so in my <select> I can't filter out duplicate
countries.
These will be your datasets listing the original data and listing the countries filtering out duplicate countries
var dsAccessnumbers = new Spry.Data.XMLDataSet("accessnumbers.xml", "AccessNumbers/AccessNumber");
var dsCountries = new Spry.Data.XMLDataSet("accessnumbers.xml", "AccessNumbers/AccessNumber/country", {distinctOnLoad: true});
Olavarrieta wrote:
Also, don't understand how to tie the <select> info to the table
to display the correct data in the table based on the country selected.
Have a look here to give you an idea http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/data_region/DataSetMasterDetailSample.html
The above example uses a different XML data structure, but with a bit of juggling, you will be able to make it work for the structure that you have in place
Other articles worth noting:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/data_region/SetURL.html
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/articles/data_set_overview/