# Need help with XML structure and tracing in Flash

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**Created:** [February 19, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-with-xml-structure-and-tracing-in-flash/216691 "2007-02-19T19:10:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![lariat1997](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/df705f/32.png) [@lariat1997](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lariat1997)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-with-xml-structure-and-tracing-in-flash/216691/1 "2007-02-19T19:10:09Z")

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Hey all,

I have an XML file that I pull into Flash. I want the nodes of one parent node to trace, but I don’t want all of the children to be traced.

Here is my XML code:  
\<assets\>

```
&lt;project&gt;My Title&lt;/project&gt;
&lt;tlo&gt;My TLO&lt;/tlo&gt;
&lt;elo&gt;My ELO&lt;/elo&gt;

&lt;audios&gt;
    &lt;audio path="audio/audio1.wav"/&gt;
    &lt;audio path="audio/audio2.wav"/&gt;
    &lt;audio path="audio/audio3.wav"/&gt;
    &lt;audio path="audio/audio4.wav"/&gt;
    &lt;audio path="audio/audio5.wav"/&gt;
    &lt;audio path="audio/audio6.wav"/&gt;
    &lt;audio path="audio/audio7.wav"/&gt;
    &lt;audio path="audio/audio8.wav"/&gt;
    &lt;audio path="audio/audio9.wav"/&gt;
    &lt;audio path="audio/audio10.wav"/&gt;
&lt;/audios&gt;

&lt;texts&gt;
    &lt;text&gt;
        &lt;title&gt;Title_a&lt;/title&gt;
        &lt;sub&gt;Sub1_a&lt;/sub&gt;
        &lt;sub&gt;Sub2_a&lt;/sub&gt;
        &lt;sub&gt;Sub3_a&lt;/sub&gt;
    &lt;/text&gt;

    &lt;text&gt;
        &lt;title&gt;Title_b&lt;/title&gt;
        &lt;sub&gt;Sub1_b&lt;/sub&gt;
        &lt;sub&gt;Sub2_b&lt;/sub&gt;
        &lt;sub&gt;Sub3_b&lt;/sub&gt;
    &lt;/text&gt;

    &lt;text&gt;
        &lt;title&gt;Title_c&lt;/title&gt;
        &lt;sub&gt;Sub1_c&lt;/sub&gt;
        &lt;sub&gt;Sub2_c&lt;/sub&gt;
        &lt;sub&gt;Sub3_c&lt;/sub&gt;
    &lt;/text&gt;

    &lt;text&gt;
        &lt;title&gt;Title_d&lt;/title&gt;
        &lt;sub&gt;Sub1_d&lt;/sub&gt;
        &lt;sub&gt;Sub2_d&lt;/sub&gt;
        &lt;sub&gt;Sub3_d&lt;/sub&gt;
    &lt;/text&gt;

    &lt;text&gt;
        &lt;title&gt;Title_e&lt;/title&gt;
        &lt;sub&gt;Sub1_e&lt;/sub&gt;
        &lt;sub&gt;Sub2_e&lt;/sub&gt;
        &lt;sub&gt;Sub3_e&lt;/sub&gt;
    &lt;/text&gt;

&lt;/texts&gt;

```

\</assets\>

I want:  
\<texts\>  
\<text\>  
\</text\>  
\<text\>  
\</text\>  
\<text\>  
\</text\>  
\<text\>  
\</text\>  
\<text\>  
\</text\>  
\</texts\>

In other words, I only want the ‘text’ nodes to pull-up inside of the parent ‘texts’, not their respected subs.

My AS code which is inside of the onLoad for the XML file:  
ActionScript Code:  
[FONT=Courier New][LEFT][COLOR=#0000FF]trace[/COLOR]COLOR=#000000[/COLOR];  
[/LEFT]  
[/FONT]

I want to grab the:  
ActionScript Code:  
[FONT=Courier New][LEFT]nodes.[COLOR=#0000FF]length[/COLOR]  
[/LEFT]  
[/FONT]

but I don’t want to include the subs.

Any help would be appreciated.