Is it possible to search for keywords in an XML file?

An XML element can have multiple attributes such as:

<title keyword="war" category="international">War Breaks Out in the Middle East!</title>

In the above example, the XML element <title> has 2 attributes named keyword and category.

So in my example I'm searching for the attribute named "keywords" within the element <newsItem>.

The XML document could be formatted something as the following:

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<someNewsFeed>

     <items>

          <newsItem keyword="war" category="international" url="www.cnn.com/headline2010020111">War Breaks Out in the Middle East!</newsItem>

          <newsItem keyword="healthcare" category="politics" url="www.cnn.com/headline2010020321">Healthcare Bill Still Has Some Hurdles to Jump</newsItem>

          <newsItem keyword="lady gaga" category="entertainment" url="www.cnn.com/headline2010020981">Lady Gaga Has 360 Reach</newsItem>

     </items>

</someNewsFeed>

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So in my example, the if/else loop is looking through each XML node named <newsItem> and when it finds it, it then see if it has an attribute called "keyword" and if it does, it then looks to see if it contains the word "war". If it DOES, then it will do the proceeding actions.

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if (newsFeed.items.newsItem.attribute("keyword") == "war") {

          warKeywordCounter == warKeywordCounter+1; //increase your keyword counter

          trace("Current value of warKeywordCounter = "+ warKeywordCounter);

}

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I'm assuming you already know how to load external XML documents into flash.

I hope this helps.

Message was edited by: dchaparro Corrected if/else code to include right parentheses.