Simple e4x filter question

Question

For the life of me I just can't figure out why this does not work.
Here is the variable of type XML called "datagrid":
var datagrid:XML = <data>
  <record id="1" companyname="abc" password="pass1" isactive="Y"/>
  <record id="4" companyname="companyx" password="dog" isactive="Y"/>
  <record id="2" companyname="def" password="pass2" isactive="Y"/>
  <record id="3" companyname="ghi" password="pass3" isactive="Y"/>
  <record id="5" companyname="test" password="testpwd" isactive="Y"/>
  <record id="6" companyname="test2" password="testpwd2" isactive="Y"/>
  <record id="10" companyname="test3" password="testpwd3" isactive="Y"/>
  <record id="11" companyname="test4" password="pwd4" isactive="Y"/>
  <record id="12" companyname="test5" password="pwd5" isactive="Y"/>
</data>;
Here are a series of traces:
trace(this.griddata.record[0]);
trace(this.griddata.record[1]);
trace(this.griddata.record[2]);
trace(this.griddata.record[2].@id);
trace(this.griddata.record.(@id=="5"));
Only the 4th trace returns the value "2".  The rest of the traces return absolutely nothing when they should return some data.  The one in particular I'm interested in is the last one, which should return  <record id="5" companyname="test" password="testpwd" isactive="Y"/> .
I've done a lot of e4x filtering and I can't see the difference between what I've done in the past successfully and this simple example now.  Is there something obvious I seem to be overlooking?

Answer 1

Trace uses toString() which only returns text nodes, not the actual XML or text in attributes.  Try
trace(this.griddata.record.(@id=="5").toXMLString());
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Developer
Adobe Systems Inc.
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