# Problem getting number of elements in a Xmllist

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-getting-number-of-elements-in-a-xmllist/330406>\
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**Created:** [January 15, 2013, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-getting-number-of-elements-in-a-xmllist/330406 "2013-01-15T22:02:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-getting-number-of-elements-in-a-xmllist/330406/1 "2013-01-15T22:02:28Z")

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I am having trouble determining the length in a xmllist.  
I load it ok, put it in a loop and able to extract the elements I want it in rowlist (I am able to trace out rowlist)  
But when I try to determine the number of elements in totalItems I get a 0.

Am I doing something wrong? The code is below

Thanks

var load\_moro:URLLoader=new URLLoader(new URLRequest(‘home.xml’));load\_moro.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, processXML);

function processXML(e:Event):void {  
var moro:XML=XML(e.target.data);  
for each (moro in moro.row) {   
var rowlist:XMLList=moro.(data[9]==“06/12/1943”);  
trace(rowlist);  
var pl:String=rowlist.toXMLString();  
pl="\<settings\>"+pl+"\</settings\>";  
var daily\_total:XML=new XML(pl);  
var totalItems:Number=daily\_total.row.length();  
}  
trace(totalItems);  
}