Hi,

This may seem to be a simple problem, but I am not sure how to get the
heads and tails from this. I have written up a code snippet that spits out the
values based from the output from an external HTTPService. The variables I
declared are integer types, but when I tried to calculate the total, it always
outputs the "appended string" from the values I have in the XML. What I really
want to see is that it outputs the "total" of the numbers I have in the for
loop by adding it together.

Is there something I have missed here?

I tried doing something like number_lines = xmlList.number_lines so I don't
have to worry about the index number of a particular element in the XML, but
every time when I do this, I get no output f the number and messes up my code.
Is there some way in which I can output the number based on the element name
rather than the index position of it in the XML?

Thanks in advance.

To illustrate, I have attached the XML and Actionscript below:

XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<log>
<number_lines>2</number_lines>
<sell_manager>
<category>203</category>
<total_incidence>3</total_incidence>
</sell_manager>
<sell_manager>
<category>204</category>
<total_incidence>11</total_incidence>
</sell_manager>
</time_log>

Actionscript:

[Bindable]private var total_incidence:int;
[Bindable]private var number_lines:String;

private function resultHandler(e:ResultEvent):void {

var xmlList:XMLList = new XML(e.result).children();
number_lines = xmlList[0];
total_incidence= xmlList[i].total_incidence;
for (var i=1; i<= number_lines; i++) {
total_incidence += xmlList[i].total_incidence;
Alert.show("There are " + total_incidence + " of
sales","Alert Box");
}
}

"alice_data" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> This may seem to be a simple problem, but I am not sure how to get the
> heads and tails from this. I have written up a code snippet that spits out
> the
> values based from the output from an external HTTPService. The variables I
> declared are integer types, but when I tried to calculate the total, it
> always
> outputs the "appended string" from the values I have in the XML. What I
> really
> want to see is that it outputs the "total" of the numbers I have in the
> for
> loop by adding it together.
>
> Is there something I have missed here?
>
> I tried doing something like number_lines = xmlList.number_lines so I
> don't
> have to worry about the index number of a particular element in the XML,
> but
> every time when I do this, I get no output f the number and messes up my
> code.
> Is there some way in which I can output the number based on the element
> name
> rather than the index position of it in the XML?
>

Everything in XML is text. Look at parseInt()

HTH;

Amy

Hi, Amy:

Thanks for the heads up, but isn't the data in <category>203</category> a
number?
My next question is, if the information is considered text, but I can parse
it by declaring [Bindable]private var total_incidence:int; in Actionscript,
what would you recommend me change to make the calculation work?

Thanks a lot for your help.

Alice

"alice_data" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:ge30fk$cmu$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hi, Amy:
>
> Thanks for the heads up, but isn't the data in <category>203</category>
> a
> number?

No. It is a string containing a numeric value.

> My next question is, if the information is considered text, but I can
> parse
> it by declaring [Bindable]private var total_incidence:int; in
> Actionscript,

I'd think that might cause an implicit coercion error.

> what would you recommend me change to make the calculation work?

Do a search in the docs for parseInt. If you still have questions, come
back :-).

As Amy says the data form XML is considered string and it must be converted to the type you need.

This will do it.
new Number(xmlList[i].total_incidence);