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Asked: 2026-05-27T00:17:37+00:00

I would appreciate any advice here. Based on what I have found on the

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I would appreciate any advice here. Based on what I have found on the web, I have tried the following to try get what I need working.

I am using Actionscript 2.0 XPath to try and access a <div> value in an xhtml file, but I have this simple piece of Actionscript that I cannot get working:

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stop();

import mx.xpath.XPathAPI;

var rssfeed_xml:XML = new XML();
rssfeed_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
rssfeed_xml.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
trace("onload...");
if (success) {
trace("success...");


var elementId:String = "title1";
var elementPath:String = "//div[@id'" + elementId + "']";
found_elements = XPathAPI.selectNodeList(rssfeed_xml.firstChild, elementPath);


if (found_elements.length == 1) {
  trace(found_elements[0]);
}


} else {
trace("error loading XML");
}
};
rssfeed_xml.load("test.xhtml");

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My test.xhtml is simple, as such:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Landing</title>
</head>

<div id="mainArea">
    <div id="content">
        <div id="calloutContent">
            <div id="title">Search Our QA Database</div>
            <div id="callout1">text1</div>  
            <div id="callout2">text2</div>         
            <div id="callout3">text3</div>
        </div>
    <div id="heroContent">
        <div id="title1">text4</div>
        <div id="title2">text5</div>
    </div>
    </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

In my Actionscript, I am just trying to get the value of <div id="title1">, which is “text4”.

The Actionscript code looks right, but I am not getting anything coming through on the line trace(found_elements[0]);.

Any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your problem is coming from the path you have created. This is your current path (with the variable inlined):

    "//div[@id'title1']"

    There are a couple of things wrong here:

    • The XHTML is missing an opening <body> tag
    • the // at the start does nothing. To wildcard a node you need to use the * symbol. This will then give you the first node depth. The get to the depth you require you will need to repeat this three more times.
    • missing an = after the attribute name.

    This path works to target your chosen div:

    "/*/*/*/*/div[@id='title1']"

    That path returns the complete node however, so to just extract the text you then request the firstChild.nodeValue:

    trace(found_elements[0].firstChild.nodeValue);

    The obvious problem here is that you have to know pretty much where your target node appears within the document.

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