Delete an element from an xml object

[jrwalker2]

Is there a way to delete an xml element from an XML object based on the text of that element?

Example:
--------
<items>
<item>a<item>
<item>b<item>
<item>c<item>
<items>

I want to delete the element that has the value 'b' resulting in the following xml object:

<items>
<item>a<item>
<item>c<item>
<items>

[bahamucio]

delete items.item;

or u can just give it new value.

[jrwalker2]

How do I specify that I want to delete just <item>b<item>? Because the following code deletes all the <item> tags.

delete items.item;

[bahamucio]

var xml:XML;
var xmlList:XMLList; //xmlList is more like indexed array
var xmlReq:String = "xmlfile.xml"; // your xml file
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest("xmlfile.xml"));

xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, xmlLoaded);

function xmlLoaded(event:Event):void
{
   xml = XML(event.target.data); //gets the data in xml format
   xmlList = xml.children(); //xmlList gets all the childrens (all <item> in this case)
   delete xmlList[1]; //delete the desited element
   trace(xmlList);
}

with this u can delete the element from the xmlList but I think u cannot delete it from the file.

[jrwalker2]

In my situation, I will not be able to know the index of the element that I want to delete (only its value). Is there a way to do the following? Thanks

var xml:XML;
var xmlList:XMLList; //xmlList is more like indexed array
var xmlReq:String = "xmlfile.xml"; // your xml file
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest("xmlfile.xml"));

xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, xmlLoaded);

function xmlLoaded(event:Event):void
{
xml = XML(event.target.data); //gets the data in xml format
xmlList = xml.children(); //xmlList gets all the childrens (all <item> in this case)
delete xmlList[index of the <item> element that has 'b' as its value]; //delete the desited element
trace(xmlList);
}

[bahamucio]

in that case:

 
var xml:XML = 
        <order>
            <item>Rice</item>
            <item>Kung Pao Shrimp</item>
        </order>;
for each(var i in xml.item)
{
   if(xml.item[i].contains(<item>Rice</item>))
   {
      delete xml.item[i];
   }
}

if u use this

var xml:XML;
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest("xmlfile.xml"));

xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, xmlLoaded);

function xmlLoaded(event:Event):void
{
   xml = XML(event.target.data); //gets the data in xml format
   for each(var i in xml.item)
   {
     if(xml.item[i].contains(<item>Rice</item>))
     {
      delete xml.item[i];
     }
  }

}

[jrwalker2]

Thanks bahamucio! This worked great. The only modification that I had to make was adding a type to the for-each loop variable.

for each(var i:int in xml.item)
{
if(xml.item[i].contains(<item>Rice</item>))
{
delete xml.item[i];
}
}

[jrwalker2]

Question: The code below deletes the first <item> only, because the loop variable never increments. Is there a way to change this so that I can iterate through all the items so that if I want to delete Kung Pao Shrimp before Rice, I could do it? The loop var i always remains at 0. I tried the following in place of the for-each but without success:

for each(var i:int in xml.children())

[jrwalker2]

Hi bahamucio...can you help me once more on this (see previous message)? Thanks