Hi,

I've got an urgent problem that I have been trying to rack my brain over for
the past week. I need to create a complex conditional statement to use on an
XPath. I'm doing a search on a database using six different checkboxes as:

Class A
[] class1a [] class2a [] class3a

Class B
[] class1b [] class2b [] class3b

Where any combination of these boxes can be checked. These then need to
influence an XPath statement:

var query:String = "//record[CONDITIONS GO HERE]";

Can anyone PLEASE help! I can't make heads or tales of it and haven't slept in
48 hours :( :( trying to solve the problem for a client.

Thanks.

Do you have a sniplet of the XML document you are trying to process, this would make helping you possible. What you have here will not allow for this.

Hi Randy, Thanks for the reply.

Its part of a more complex search where you can search by gender (class A
above), medal (class B above), name,country,event, and year.

The XML is as follows.



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<database>
<!-- Bobsleigh -->
<record>
<year>1932</year>
<discipline>Bobsleigh</discipline>
<event_type>two-man</event_type>
<noc>USA</noc>
<gender>M</gender>
<contestant>UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 01</contestant>
<medal>Gold</medal>
</record>
<record>
<year>1932</year>
<discipline>Bobsleigh</discipline>
<event_type>two-man</event_type>
<noc>SUI</noc>
<gender>M</gender>
<contestant>SWITZERLAND 02</contestant>
<medal>Silver</medal>
</record>
</database>

So based on what your saying, I assume Class A how you have it listed Above
would be something like:
Select gender:
(x) Male (x) Female (x) Both
Is this correct? If not, what should it be? Or are you just looking for a
generic XPATH, and if so what type of conditional do you want it based off of
OR,AND?

Take a look at an example I created at
http://www.telsim.com/flashtest/xpathcreate.swf
Let me know if this is what you needed, the OR and AND implementations are
configurable from the fla easily , so is the conditional compare of the field
and also the value.

That looks great! Thanks.

Am travelling at the moment so can't yet try it out, but please leave it on
your server for a week if you don't mind. Would love to see fla.

Many thanks. Will let you know how I get on.

Whenever I place these on the server, I also place the fla in the same directory, you can grab it at :
http://www.telsim.com/flashtest/xpathcreate.fla
Let me know how it worked.