xml nodes will not delete despite calling “delete”

Question

I\'m trying to use the delete keyword to remove nodes from an xml file and it just plain won\'t work.

Here\'s a stripped down example of what I\'m working with. Eve

Answer 1

Yo

You need to do the 'for loop' in reverse. This goes for removing items in any collection/list via an iteration loop.

When an item is deleted (e.g. index 2 when j is 2), the next item in the List fills the space left by the deleted item (e.g. index 3 becmoes index 2), but j gets increased to 3, and the shifted item (in index 2) gets skipped. The following will work:

var _xmlList:XMLList=_sourceXML.i;

for (var j:int=_xmlList.length() - 1; j >= 0 ; j--)
{                   
    if (_xmlList[j].deleteme == 1)
    {
        delete _xmlList[j];                     
    }                   
}