# Detecting number of attributes in childNode

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**Created:** [May 21, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-number-of-attributes-in-childnode/110932 "2004-05-21T03:28:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-number-of-attributes-in-childnode/110932/1 "2004-05-21T03:28:53Z")

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Hi there everyone,

im trying to write a handfull of XML functions in AS2.0  
and im trying to find a way of getting flash to detect  
the number of attributes in a childNode.

_\<item name=“aaron” location=“sydney” sex=“male”/\>_  
as in finding out how many of these ^ there are in each item.

any ideas as to how I would do this? I’ve tried for…in… statements  
and even trying to access them as objects i.e. …ode[0].attributes[“name”]  
but it never works - I always have to hard code…ode[0].attributes.name  
to get the value.

im sure theres a way to do this, there has to be a way.  
please show me the way :ne:

Thanks in advance !!!