[aura9]

I am having a problem reading the value of a xml text node. It is being read by the Flash XML object as null. Is there something I'm missing?

Here is the XML file

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<GALLERY>
	<CATEGORY NAME="brochures">
		<GAL_ITEM NAME="1" FULL="1_full.jpg" THUMB="1_thumb.jpg">
			<LINK HREF="http://www.linktofile.com/" TARGET="_blank" NAME="Click Here for enlargement"/>
		    <DESC>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.</DESC>
		</GAL_ITEM>
		<GAL_ITEM NAME="2" FULL="2_full.jpg" THUMB="2_thumb.jpg">
			<LINK HREF="http://www.linktofile.com/" TARGET="_blank" NAME="Click Here for enlargement"/>
			<DESC>
		    	Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
			</DESC>
		</GAL_ITEM>
		<GAL_ITEM NAME="3" FULL="3_full.jpg" THUMB="3_thumb.jpg">
			<LINK HREF="http://www.linktofile.com/" TARGET="_blank" NAME="Click Here for enlargement"/>
			<DESC>
		    	Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
			</DESC>
		</GAL_ITEM>
		<GAL_ITEM NAME="4" FULL="4_full.jpg" THUMB="4_thumb.jpg">
			<LINK HREF="http://www.linktofile.com/" TARGET="_blank" NAME="Click Here for enlargement"/>
			<DESC>
		    	Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
			</DESC>
		</GAL_ITEM>
		<GAL_ITEM NAME="5" FULL="5_full.jpg" THUMB="5_thumb.jpg">
			<LINK HREF="http://www.linktofile.com/" TARGET="_blank" NAME="Click Here for enlargement"/>
			<DESC>
		    	Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
			</DESC>
		</GAL_ITEM>
		<GAL_ITEM NAME="6" FULL="6_full.jpg" THUMB="6_thumb.jpg">
			<LINK HREF="http://www.linktofile.com/" TARGET="_blank" NAME="Click Here for enlargement"/>
			<DESC>
		    	Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
			</DESC>
		</GAL_ITEM>
		<GAL_ITEM NAME="7" FULL="7_full.jpg" THUMB="7_thumb.jpg">
			<LINK HREF="http://www.linktofile.com/" TARGET="_blank" NAME="Click Here for enlargement"/>
			<DESC>
		    	Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
			</DESC>
		</GAL_ITEM>
		<GAL_ITEM NAME="8" FULL="8_full.jpg" THUMB="8_thumb.jpg">
			<LINK HREF="http://www.linktofile.com/" TARGET="_blank" NAME="Click Here for enlargement"/>
			<DESC>
		    	Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
			</DESC>
		</GAL_ITEM>
		<GAL_ITEM NAME="9" FULL="9_full.jpg" THUMB="9_thumb.jpg">
			<LINK HREF="http://www.linktofile.com/" TARGET="_blank" NAME="Click Here for enlargement"/>
			<DESC>
		    	Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
			</DESC>
		</GAL_ITEM>
	</CATEGORY>
	<CATEGORY NAME="direct mail">
		<GAL_ITEM NAME="1" FULL="1_full.jpg" THUMB="1_thumb.jpg">
			<LINK HREF="http://www.linktofile.com/" TARGET="_blank" NAME="Click Here for enlargement"/>
		    <DESC>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.</DESC>
		</GAL_ITEM>
	</CATEGORY>
</GALLERY>

HERE IS THE ActionScript:

Code:

//GetData Object//

GetData = function(file){
	this.file = file; // xml file location
	this.dataObj = new Array();
}
GetData.prototype.load = function(){
	xmlData = new XML;
	xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;	
	xmlData.onLoad = this.parseData;
	xmlData.load(this.file);
	dataObj = this.dataObj;
}
GetData.prototype.parseData = function(){
	rootNode 	= 	xmlData.childNodes;
	galNodes 	= 	rootNode[0].childNodes;
	if(rootNode[0].nodeName.toUpperCase() == "GALLERY"){
		// trace("Found Root Gallery Node! \n\n");trace("Found  "+galNodes.length+" Categories");
		for(var i=0; i < galNodes.length; i++){
			//  GET CATEGORY //
		    	catNodeAtts = galNodes[i].attributes; trace("======================"); trace("Found " + catNodeAtts.NAME);trace("======================");
		    	catNodes  = galNodes[i].childNodes;  //trace("Found  " + catNodes.length + " Items in Category");
			// GET ITEMS //
				for(var ii=0; ii < catNodes.length; ii++){
					// GET ITEM ATTRIBUTES //
		    			itemAtts = catNodes[ii].attributes; trace("Found Full " + itemAtts.FULL);trace("Found Thumb " + itemAtts.THUMB);trace("Found Name " + itemAtts.NAME);
		    			itemNodes = catNodes[ii].childNodes;trace("Found " + itemNodes.length + " Nodes for this Item");
					// GET ITEM NODES //
		    			for(var iii=0; iii < itemNodes.length; iii++){
		    		    	trace(itemNodes[iii].nodeValue);
						}
					trace("---------------------");
				}
		}
	}
}

The Node coming back as Null is the <DESC> from within the <GAL_ITEM> container.

Thanks in advance!

a9