So I have a situation on my hands. I have an excel file that

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So I have a situation on my hands. I have an excel file that

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So I have a situation on my hands. I have an excel file that needs to be made into an XML file, which is a problem for a different posting (XSLT anyone?). That XML file is going to represent a list of about 400 items that are coded into about 15 different categories. Here is a sample of that XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<hotel>

<hfloor number="18">
<d_location d_code="sw18.10N" d_type="sw" description="Ferbludgit thingamabob">
        <d_image>3e_pic1</d_image>
    <d_image>3e_pic2</d_image>
        <d_image>3e_pic3</d_image>
        <d_image>3e_pic4</d_image>
        <d_image>3e_pic5</d_image>
        <d_video>3e_vid_1</d_video>
        <d_video>3e_vid_2</d_video>
        <d_video></d_video>
</d_location>
</hfloor>

<hfloor number="15">
<d_location d_code="W3" d_type="sw" description="Broken fetzer valve">
        <d_image>3s_pic1</d_image>
</d_location>
    <d_location d_code="LB12" d_type="sw" description="Screwed up whosamadingy">
        <d_image>media/lb15_12/LB-12 LOOKING NORTH.png</d_image>
    <d_image>media/lb15_12/LB-12 LOOKING SOUTH.png</d_image>
        <d_image>media/lb15_12/Pages from Level_15_Link_Beam_12.png</d_image>
    <d_image>media/lb15_12/Pages from Level_15_Link_Beam_12-2.png</d_image>
    <d_image>media/lb15_12/Post Demo from CITC018306365-2.png</d_image>
        <d_image>media/lb15_12/Rebuilt from CITC018306365.png</d_image>
    <d_image>media/lb15_12/WEI LB 12 level 15.png</d_image>
        <d_video>Video 1</d_video>
        <d_video>Video 2</d_video>
        <d_video>Video 3</d_video>
</d_location>
<d_location d_code="LB17" d_type="sw" description="Broken fetzer valve">
        <d_image>3s_pic1</d_image>
</d_location>
</hfloor>

<hfloor number="s">
<d_location d_code="lbs.6e" d_type="sw" description="Whacked flogatron">
        <d_image></d_image>
    <d_image></d_image>
        <d_image></d_image>
        <d_image></d_image>
    <d_image></d_image>
        <d_video></d_video>
        <d_video></d_video>
        <d_video></d_video>
</d_location>
</hfloor>

<hfloor number="s2">
<d_location d_code="W1" d_type="sw" description="Broken fetzer valve">
        <d_image>3s_pic1</d_image>
</d_location>
<d_location d_code="SWS2.3" d_type="sw" description="Whacked flogatron">
        <d_image>media/sw_s2_3/CITC000155966.png</d_image>
    <d_image>media/sw_s2_3/CITC000155983.png</d_image>
        <d_image>media/sw_s2_3/CITC000155996.png</d_image>
        <d_image>media/sw_s2_3/CITC000156003.png</d_image>
        <d_image>media/sw_s2_3/Screen shot 2012-04-19 at 5.54.42 PM.png</d_image>
        <d_image>media/sw_s2_3/WEI SWS2.3.png</d_image>
        <d_video>lbs.6e vid</d_video>
        <d_video></d_video>
        <d_video></d_video>
</d_location>
</hfloor>
</hotel>

The user needs to be able to view all of these in a list – no problem, though that will be a big scroller – but also to FILTER that list by the d_type in the code above. As mentioned, there are 15 of these types, and the user wants 15 radio buttons, one for each, that will re-build the list showing just the selected d_type.

Does anyone have any thoughts as to how to do this? Both the filtering algorithms and how to properly implement it in AS3? I assume I will need to create a second XML object of some sort and translate in the newer, sorted data.