Importing text from a XML File

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

L0veLife - 18 Sep 2006 09:04 GMT

Hello

I would like to import text from a XML file into a dynamic text field. The
XML file contains database records. I have found that Flash does not support
the DOM command 'getElementsByTagName()' which I was endeavouring to use to
find the record in the XML file that I wanted to associate with a particular
dynamic text field.

Is there any other way to search through the XML file for the particular
record I am looking for?

Thank you

Reply to this Message

Raymond Basque - 18 Sep 2006 14:04 GMT

Take a look at mx.xpath.XPathAPI

Reply to this Message

L0veLife - 19 Sep 2006 06:16 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion. I have tried it but the XPath API only has four
methods none of which will return the value of a Node. I have found and
downloaded an XPath implementation for Flash written by
http://www.xfactorstudio.com/ which is supposed to utilize the full W3 XPath
standard. It did not come with any documentation though and I am at a loss as
to how to implement it. Can anyone help?

Thank you

Reply to this Message

Raymond Basque - 19 Sep 2006 11:36 GMT

Perhaps you've seen these:

http://www.badgers-in-foil.co.uk/projects/as2api/examples/xpath/com/xfactorstudi
o/xml/xpath/package-summary.html

http://www.actionscript.com/Article/tabid/54/ArticleID/Accessing-XML-Data-with-X
FactorStudio/Default.aspx

http://www.bit-101.com/xpath/

Reply to this Message

Webmaster Forum / Flash / Data Integration / September 2006

Importing text from a XML File