Webmaster Forum / Flash / Data Integration / September 2006

Hey all-

Newbie to XML here and I have what I *hope* is an easy problem, but I just
don't know the answer.  And as I have to try and show this by Monday, I'm sort
of stuck.

I am trying to pull in information about houses via an xml file.  Each house
has 1 address, 1 owner, 1 description, and about 6 photos.  I have no problem
accessing the address, owner, etc, and I can always access the first photo, but
whenever I cycle through the photos, I seem to cycle through the first photo
for every house, not every photo for each house.

Basically, I need the children <images> to go up by one, without the the
parent going up by 1.  I am hoping I am describing this well.

My code looks like this:

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total = xmlNode.childNodes.length;
totalb = xmlNode.childNodes[0].childNodes[5].childNodes.length;
totalc = (totalb-1);
for (i=0; i<total; i++) {
thumb[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
address[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
construct[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[2].firstChild.nodeValue;
work[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[3].firstChild.nodeValue;
description[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[4].firstChild.nodeValue;
image[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[5].firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue;
}

where total = number of houses
and totalb = number of photos for that house.

This works fine - it is pulling in the accurate number of both houses and
photos.

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My XML looks like this:

<projects>
    <pic>
<thumb>boulevard_staircase1_thumb.jpg</thumb>
        <address>Jim's Place</address>
    <construct>July 28, 2006</construct>
    <work>Framing, Electrical, Flooring, Roofing</work>
    <description>This is Jim's place</description>
    <photos>
           <image>jim1.jpg</image>
        <image>jim2.jpg</image>
           <image>jim3.jpg</image>
        <image>4.jpg</image>
        <image>jim5.jpg</image>
    </photos>
</pic>

    <pic>
<thumb>boulevard_staircase1_thumbb.jpg</thumb>
        <address>Bob's Place</address>
    <construct>January 20, 2006</construct>
    <work>Bob's Stuff</work>
    <description>Isn't Bob Great?</description>
    <photos>
        <image>bobs1.jpg</image>
        <image>bobs2.jpg</image>
            <image>bobs3.jpg</image>
        <image>bobs4.jpg</image>
    </photos>
</pic>

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<image> is the tag I am having problem with.

THANKS a lot, and a frosty beer to whoever can help!

Noah