[SIZE=2]So I’m not exactly sure how to title my question, as I’m not quite sure what is the issue. . . [/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]I am working on a project that calls and searches an XML sheet that looks like this:
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[SIZE=1][COLOR=navy][FONT=monospace]**<Searchtext Wordlookup="john smith">
**[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=navy][FONT=monospace]** <location>**[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT=monospace]$1[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=navy][FONT=monospace]**</location>
**[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=navy][FONT=monospace]** <Name>**[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT=monospace]john smith[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=navy][FONT=monospace]**</Name>
**[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=navy][FONT=monospace]** </Searchtext>**[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]and it continues like this for about 100+ people.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Now, my flash takes this data and allows the user to either click on a textbox (whose e.target.data.text is matched up to the xml using @Wordlookup) or type in the name of the person (again matching the textbox’s content to @Wordlookup) which results in the location of that person lighting up (MC’s are named the same as the location node for each). This end works perfectly fine using this code:
[COLOR=#333333][FONT=monospace] var result:String = xmldata.Searchtext.(@Wordlookup == inputTxt.text.toLowerCase()).location.toString(); [/FONT][/COLOR]
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[/FONT][/COLOR]Now I want to do the opposite; click on a location, and the code will match up that movieclip’s name to a location in my xml, and light up that location, and output the person’s name in the textbox. Only problem in that Flash apparently thinks a node in my xml is now a variable that is undefined. I have looked high and low for a solution, but I just can’t seem to solve it (it is probably simple, and I’ll facepalm myself) The error inducing code is this:
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var resultz:String = xmldata.Searchtext.(location.text() == e.target.name).Name.toString();
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[/FONT][/COLOR]And the error produced is this: ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable location is not defined.
[COLOR=#333333][FONT=adobe-clean]Here’s what I have ruled out:[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT=adobe-clean]• it’s not cause by e.target.name or e.currentTarget.name (both trace the same and correctly)[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT=adobe-clean]• it has nothing to do with my XMLloader[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT=adobe-clean]• if I make it : [FONT=monospace]var resultz:String = xmldata.Searchtext.(*.location.text() == e.target.name).Name.toString();[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT=adobe-clean] I dont have an error, but it also produces nothing, so thats not a fix.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT=adobe-clean]•Searchtext vs. Searchfor makes no difference (SearchFor is the absolute XMl parent node)[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT=adobe-clean]•swapping my node info to being inside the “< >“in xml (eg: <location @Location=”$1”>) and changing the as3 to “…location.(@Location…” doesn’t work.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT=adobe-clean]•the fact that AS3 recognizes location makes no difference (I have changed the name)[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT=adobe-clean]• “.toString” on or off the line of code makes no difference (I feel it might be an issue later)[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT=adobe-clean]•having “.text” after “…(location…” makes no difference.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT=adobe-clean]I feel this may rule it to be something about it’s being a string or variable? That’s all that is seemingly left…[/FONT][/COLOR]Not sure exactly why this is happening, thank you in advance for any help!
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