# Xml help!

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-help/294210
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**Created:** [August 10, 2009, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-help/294210 "2009-08-10T22:03:21Z")
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### Author: ![nsolcis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@nsolcis](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nsolcis)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2009, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-help/294210/1 "2009-08-10T22:03:21Z")

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I want to use some xml content, to then get another xml node/content,

such as  
var name:XMLList = xml.person.text()  
which might equal somthing like “john”,

then to get all the nodes named john i’d do this

xml.name;

however this isnt working, but if i do  
xml.john,  
that would work,

any ideas?  
thx  
!m