<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Peter<div>thanks that's really useful. I have got it working but in a convoluted way and your suggestion seems neater so I'll give that a go. </div><div>Cheers</div><div>Ron</div><div><br><div><div>On 12 Apr 2009, at 22:28, Peter Huppertz wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Hi Ron,</font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">I'm not totally sure how you implement your solution but due to the fact that Xerte is mainly a flash generator can't you use the built in flash functions to deal with XML?</font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Like:</font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">xm = new XML('<entry><id>tag:search.twitter.com,2005:1483252089</id><published>2009-04-09T12:59:26Z</published><link type="text/html" rel="alternate" href="</font><a href="http://twitter.com/jamesclay/statuses/1483252089"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">http://twitter.com/jamesclay/statuses/1483252089</font></a><font size="2" face="sans-serif">"/><title>@ronm123 I meant in a browser, via a second projector probably.</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="</font><a href="http://twitter.com/ronm123"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">http://twitter.com/ronm123</font></a><font size="2" face="sans-serif">"&gt;@ronm123&lt;/a&gt; I meant in a browser, via a second projector probably.</content><updated>2009-04-09T12:59:26Z</updated><link type="image/png" rel="image" href="</font><a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/96243182/Photo14_normal.jpg"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/96243182/Photo14_normal.jpg</font></a><font size="2" face="sans-serif">"/><twitter:source>&lt;a href="</font><a href="http://twitter.com/"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">http://twitter.com/</font></a><font size="2" face="sans-serif">"&gt;web&lt;/a&gt;</twitter:source><author><name>jamesclay (James Clay)</name><uri></font><a href="http://twitter.com/jamesclay"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">http://twitter.com/jamesclay</font></a><font size="2" face="sans-serif"></uri></author></entry>');</font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> </font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">trace(xml.firstChild.childNodes[6].attributes.href); //<a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/96243182/Photo14_normal.jpg">http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/96243182/Photo14_normal.jpg</a></font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Cheers,</font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Peter</font> <br> <br> <br> <table width="100%"> <tbody><tr valign="top"> <td><font size="1" color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif">From:</font> </td><td><font size="1" face="sans-serif">"RonM" <<a href="mailto:ronm@mitchellmedia.co.uk">ronm@mitchellmedia.co.uk</a>></font> </td></tr><tr valign="top"> <td><font size="1" color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif">To:</font> </td><td><font size="1" face="sans-serif">"'Xerte discussion list'" <<a href="mailto:xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>></font> </td></tr><tr valign="top"> <td><font size="1" color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif">Date:</font> </td><td><font size="1" face="sans-serif">12.04.2009 20:21</font> </td></tr><tr valign="top"> <td><font size="1" color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif">Subject:</font> </td><td><font size="1" face="sans-serif">[Xerte] how to strip out a specific string?</font> </td></tr><tr valign="top"> <td><font size="1" color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif">Sent by:</font> </td><td><font size="1" face="sans-serif"><a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a></font></td></tr></tbody></table> <br> <hr noshade=""> <br> <br> <br><font size="3" face="Arial">Hi all</font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial">I've been experimenting with the new module method of creating templates and have created a couple of new templates optimised for a specific purpose which I’ll happily share with the community once complete. One is an optimised view of twitter feeds but unless I’m mistaken it seems like the xml isn't complete for some reason. I can pick up and display the text and links etc ok but I can't work out how to access the profile pics. Here's an example entry...</font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial"> </font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial"><entry></font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial"> <id>tag:search.twitter.com,2005:1483252089</id></font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial"> <published>2009-04-09T12:59:26Z</published></font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial"> <link type="text/html" rel="alternate" href="</font><a href="http://twitter.com/jamesclay/statuses/1483252089"><font size="3" color="blue" face="Arial"><u>http://twitter.com/jamesclay/statuses/1483252089</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Arial">"/></font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial"> <title>@ronm123 I meant in a browser, via a second projector probably.</title></font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial"> <content type="html">&lt;a href="</font><a href="http://twitter.com/ronm123"><font size="3" color="blue" face="Arial"><u>http://twitter.com/ronm123</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Arial">"&gt;@ronm123&lt;/a&gt; I meant in a browser, via a second projector probably.</content></font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial"> <updated>2009-04-09T12:59:26Z</updated></font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial"> <link type="image/png" rel="image" href="</font><a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/96243182/Photo14_normal.jpg"><font size="3" color="blue" face="Arial"><u>http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/96243182/Photo14_normal.jpg</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Arial">"/></font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial"> <twitter:source>&lt;a href="</font><a href="http://twitter.com/"><font size="3" color="blue" face="Arial"><u>http://twitter.com/</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Arial">"&gt;web&lt;/a&gt;</twitter:source></font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial"> <author></font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial"> <name>jamesclay (James Clay)</name></font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial"> <uri></font><a href="http://twitter.com/jamesclay%3c/uri"><font size="3" color="blue" face="Arial"><u>http://twitter.com/jamesclay</uri</u></font></a><font size="3" face="Arial">></font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial"> </author></font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial"> </entry></font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial"> </font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial">I want to be able to strip out the path to the .jpg e.g. </font><a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/96243182/Photo14_normal.jpg"><font size="3" color="blue" face="Arial"><u>http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/96243182/Photo14_normal.jpg</u></font></a> <br><font size="3" face="Arial"> </font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial">But can't work out how to do that. I can access the content of <id>,<title> and even <name> but the tag containing the profile pic link e.g. <link type=”image/png” doesn’t have a closing tag. Presumably I need some kind of function + regular expression - any suggestions?</font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial"> </font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial">Cheers</font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial">Ron</font><tt><font size="2">_______________________________________________<br> Xerte mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">Xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br> </font></tt><a href="http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte"><tt><font size="2">http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte</font></tt></a><tt><font size="2"><br> </font></tt> <br> <br> _______________________________________________<br>Xerte mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">Xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>