Searching PARTIAL attribute value of XML

[gkp.gaurav]

I have gone thru the Kirupa's tutorial "Using XML in Flash CS3/AS3", and it helped a lot in my project. Now, I have a question in XML searching. If an attribute's value is say title="kirupa tutorial" and a user wanted to search only the word "kirupa", then how can i get this node of xml, which title is "kirupa tutorial"..

@title == "kirupa" only works when the whole word matches the value of "title" attribute, but i want to search a partial word.

[gkp.gaurav]

Hey Kirupa,
Can u please help me??

Please extend your tutorial for partial word search.

[kunjan]

Hello,

As per my knowledge it is not possible to search partial word in xml, but you can do one thing is that you can store whole xml data to an array then you can search in array then do further action.

let back to me if you have any query.

Regards,
Kunjan.

[gkp.gaurav]

hello kunjan,
Thanks for the reply, but I have solved the problem. We can do this without using Array. You have to use Regular Expression for this. And the good news is that because of ECMA script, As3 fully support Regular Expressions.

Cheers!

[kunjan]

Hello Gaurav,

can you please share the code in which you have implement search with regular expression or provide some part of code so me & others also got the idea.

Regards,
kunjan.

[gkp.gaurav]

Sure. Here is the code:
(Bold texts are the changes which i have implemented in kirupa's tutorial's code)


var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); var xmlData:XML = new XML(); xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, LoadXML); xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest("http://www.kirupa.com/net/files/sampleXML.xml")); function LoadXML(e:Event):void { xmlData = new XML(e.target.data); ParseBooks(xmlData); } function ParseBooks(bookInput:XML):void { var pattern:RegExp = new RegExp("Stephen", "i"); // i is used for ignoring the case.trace("XML Output"); trace("------------------------"); var authorList:XMLList = bookInput.Book.(pattern.test(author)); trace(authorList); }
Cheers!
-Gaurav :)

[gkp.gaurav]

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[kunjan]

Hello gaurav,

I have implemented example. it works fine
Thanks & Regards,
Kunjan.

[gkp.gaurav]

:)