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<br>I agree, I'll change the structure.<br><br>I'm just curious now as to how to get the count in an associative array or object.<br>Most of the AS refs say you have to loop over it (for key in object) ++ type thing.<br>But I can't get it to work.<br>Some other day...<br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:57:52 +0000<br>Subject: RE: [Xerte] childNodes count?<br><br>
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</style><div class="ecxWordSection1"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">It’s the innards of XMLToObject() that creates the 4. I’d not do it your way because you can’t identify your navItems as navItems: they are all different types of node, when really they are different types of navItem.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><div><div style="border-right: medium none; border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US"> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br><b>Sent:</b> 19 November 2010 11:43<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] childNodes count?</span></p></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"><br>Or I could add count="6" to the navigation tag:<br><navigation count="6"><br><br>:-)<br><br><br>I do prefer property arrays to index arrays. Way more idiot-proof.<br>An index array will entail nested loops each time I want to get a value.<br><br>I just hate not seeing why this gives me 4:<br><br>debug(templateData.brand[0].navigation[0].copy[0].tooltip);//correct<br>debug(templateData.brand[0].navigation[0].dict[0].tooltip);//correct<br>debug(templateData.brand[0].navigation[0].open[0].tooltip);//correct<br>debug(templateData.brand[0].navigation[0].home[0].tooltip);//correct<br>debug(templateData.brand[0].navigation[0].next[0].tooltip);//correct<br>debug(templateData.brand[0].navigation[0].back[0].tooltip);//correct<br><br><br>debug(templateData.brand[0].navigation[0].length); //4<br> <br><br><br></span></p><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"><hr id="ecxstopSpelling" align="center" width="100%" size="2"></span></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:22:23 +0000<br>Subject: RE: [Xerte] childNodes count?</span></p><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I’d do this:</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><brand></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> <navigation></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> <navItem </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">swf="btnBack_ease.swf" tooltip="Previous page Shortcut-key: Alt+Left" x="100" y="200" w="100" h="200/></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> <navItem </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">swf="btnBack_ease.swf" tooltip="Previous page Shortcut-key: Alt+Left" x="100" y="200" w="100" h="200/></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> <navItem </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">swf="btnBack_ease.swf" tooltip="Previous page Shortcut-key: Alt+Left" x="100" y="200" w="100" h="200/></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> <navItem </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">swf="btnBack_ease.swf" tooltip="Previous page Shortcut-key: Alt+Left" x="100" y="200" w="100" h="200/></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"></navigation></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"></brand></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Then you should be able to get templateData.brand[0].navigation[0].navItem.length</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"></span></p><div><div style="border-right: medium none; border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm; border-color: -moz-use-text-color;"><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US"> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br><b>Sent:</b> 19 November 2010 11:13<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] childNodes count?</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"></span></p></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">"Collections" according to Google.<br><br>debug(templateData.brand[0].navigation[0].length);<br><br>4<br><br>I tried that and about 2 dozen other variations.<br>I variously get undefined, 4 or 9.</span></p><div style="margin-left: 36pt;"><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"><hr align="center" width="100%" size="2"></span></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:37:47 +0000<br>Subject: RE: [Xerte] childNodes count?</span></p><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">They are objects (arrays I think), not XML Nodes.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Try </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">templateData.brand[0].navigation[0].length; //no childNodes on objects!</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"></span></p><div><div style="border-right: medium none; border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm; border-color: -moz-use-text-color;"><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US"> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br><b>Sent:</b> 18 November 2010 20:53<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] childNodes count?</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"></span></p></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 108pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"><br>Here's the structure being read into templateData:<br><br><brand><br> <background graphic="intromen_ease.gif" x="0" y="0" w="100" h="200"><br> </background><br> <navigation><br> <back swf="btnBack_ease.swf" tooltip="Previous page Shortcut-key: Alt+Left" x="100" y="200" w="100" h="200"></back><br> <next swf="btnNext_ease.swf" tooltip="Next page Shortcut-key: Alt+Right" x="200" y="200" w="100" h="200"></next><br> <home swf="btnHome_ease.swf" tooltip="Unit home page Shortcut-key: Alt+Home" x="300" y="200" w="100" h="200"></home><br> <open swf="btnOpen_ease.swf" tooltip="Open a unit Shortcut-key: Ctrl+O" x="400" y="200" w="100" h="200"></open><br> <dict swf="btnDict_ease.swf" tooltip="Show the Dictionary" x="500" y="200" w="100" h="200"></dict><br> <copy swf="btnCopy_ease.swf" tooltip="Copy text to your scrapbook" x="600" y="200" w="100" h="200"></copy><br> </navigation><br></brand><br><br><br>inspect(templateData.brand[0].navigation[0])<br><br>gives me 6 children:<br><br>copy : null<br>dict : null<br>open : null<br>home : null<br>next : null<br>back : null<br><br><br>debug(templateData.brand[0].navigation[0].childNodes.length);<br><br>gives me 4<br><br><br>fah.<br><br></span></p></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; 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