Webmaster Forum / Flash / Data Integration / March 2008

But when I change the structure a little, this won't work!  Why not?   I just
want to create one Node for each <placemark> tag in the xml.

The XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.2">
  <Placemark id="0" type ="1">
    <name>Zero - zero</name>
    <description>This is at zero latitude and zero longitude</description>
    <Point>
      <coordinates>0,0,0</coordinates>
    </Point>
  </Placemark>
 
    <Placemark id="1" type ="2">
    <name>Simple placemark</name>
    <description>Attached to the ground. Intelligently places itself
       at the height of the underlying terrain.</description>
    <Point>
      <coordinates>-122.0822035425683,37.42228990140251,0</coordinates>
    </Point>
  </Placemark>
 
    <Placemark id="2" type ="3">
    <name>New York City</name>
    <description>This is a rockin' town</description>
    <Point>
      <coordinates>42.3583,-75.85,0</coordinates>
    </Point>
  </Placemark>
</kml>

Yet, I cannot even get the second "success!" trace.   It's almost exactly the
same as above!  (xmlData.item vs. xmlData.Placemark)

Attach Code

public function processMarkerData (xmlData:XML):void {

    // loop through all markers in the XML
    // and generate a node for each one
    trace ("xmlData: " + xmlData);

    for each (var xmlPlacemark:XML in xmlData.Placemark) {
               
        trace ("success!");
               
        // create node
        var node:Node = new Node(
                    xmlPlacemark,
                    {
                    nodeID:    nodeID,
                    app:    this
                       });
               
        }
    }
}