# Strange XMl trace

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/strange-xml-trace/315014>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 14, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/strange-xml-trace/315014 "2010-10-14T22:28:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![pepeu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@pepeu](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pepeu)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/strange-xml-trace/315014/1 "2010-10-14T22:28:24Z")

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Hi everybody!  
I was following the XML tutorial on: [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flashcs3/using\_xml\_as3\_pg7.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flashcs3/using_xml_as3_pg7.htm) and was wondering about this strange thingie…

the xml looks like this:

\<Books\>  
\<Book ISBN=“0553212419”\>  
\<title\>Sherlock Holmes: Complete Novels and Stories, Vol 1\</title\>  
\<author\>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle\</author\>  
\</Book\>  
\<Book ISBN=“0743273567”\>  
\<title\>The Great Gatsby\</title\>  
\<author\>F. Scott Fitzgerald\</author\>  
\</Book\>  
\<Book ISBN=“0684826976”\>  
\<title\>Undaunted Courage\</title\>  
\<author\>Stephen E. Ambrose\</author\>  
\</Book\>  
\<Book ISBN=“0743203178”\>  
\<title\>Nothing Like It In the World\</title\>  
\<author\>Stephen E. Ambrose\</author\>  
\</Book\>  
\</Books\>

The code like this:

var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();  
var xmlData:XML = new XML();

xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, LoadXML);  
xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest(“blabla.xml”));

function LoadXML(e:Event):void {  
xmlData=new XML(e.target.data);  
ParseInfo(xmlData);  
}

function ParseInfo(xmlInput:XML):void {  
trace(“XML Output”);  
trace("------------------------");  
// the following search traces:  
// Undaunted Courage  
var xmlList:XMLList = xmlInput.Book.(author == “Stephen E. Ambrose” && title != “Nothing Like It In the World”).title;

```
    // the following search traces: 
    //&lt;title&gt;Undaunted Courage&lt;/title&gt;
    //&lt;title&gt;Nothing Like It In the World&lt;/title&gt;
    var xmlList:XMLList = xmlInput.Book.(author == "Stephen E. Ambrose").title;
trace(xmlList);

```

}

Now why is it that if I use the second xmlList, the trace is with XML-tags? If I use the first one, the result comes back without?