XML parsing in flash

Question

Hi,
I'm using the following technique inorder to parse the XML
like
this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;....
Just want to known if there is any way in Macromedia flash
where in we can you element by names for parsing XML like asdk
supported api : element.getElement("name"); instead of indexing.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<inventors>
<person>
<name>Thomas Edison</name>
<comment>Inventor of cool stuff.</comment>
</person>
<person>
<name>Doug Engelbart</name>
<comment>Invented the Mouse</comment>
</person>
</inventors>
function loadXML(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
_root.inventor =
this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
_root.comments =
this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
name_txt.text = _root.inventor;
comment_txt.text = _root.comments;
} else {
trace("file not loaded!");
xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load("inventors.xml");
element.getElement(OneCardXMLConstants.CARD_LEVEL_NFC_MESSAGE);
Thanks

Answer 1

Or an AS2 solution you could use now is...
You could also use the XPathAPI class. Look in the Help files
for a link to a document to show the methods available. Below I
posted a little sample of code to get a selected node:
import mx.xpath.XPathAPI;
// Assume you have loaded an XML doc in the variable myXML
var myNode:XMLNode =
XPathAPI.selectSingleNode(myXML.firstChild,
"/process/step[@id=2]");
This will search through a XML document of the form
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<process>
<step id="1">
// some other tags
</step>
<step id="2">
//some other tags
</step>
</process>
and return the <step id="2"> node with all of its
children nodes.
Tim