Question

Say I have the follwoing XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<language id="en" description="English">
    <start>Start</start>
    <instructions>some instructions</instructions>
</language>

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How can I adapt this code to switch between the language id values? at the moment I get the error: Error #1069: Property language not found on String and there is no default value.

    private function xmlLoaded(e:Event):void {

        switch (e.target.data.language.@id) {
            case "en":
            _en = new XML(e.target.data);
            _en.ignoreWhitespace = true;
            break;

            case "de":
            _de = new XML(e.target.data);
            _de.ignoreWhitespace = true;
            break;
        }
    }

Answer 1

You have to create the XML before you accessing it. Also <language> is your root element, so you won’t find children with this name.

private function xmlLoaded(e:Event):void {

    var xml:XML = new XML(e.target.data)

    switch ([e-mail]()) {
        case "en":
        _en = xml;
        _en.ignoreWhitespace = true;
        break;

        case "de":
        _de = xml;
        _de.ignoreWhitespace = true;
        break;
    }
}