Comments on: E4X & XMLList fails when defined in a switch statement.

By: Filip Hoeven

Filip Hoeven — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:21:52 +0000

Searched for hours why the code didn’t work as expected.
Looked on the net for answers. After several days and different searches found this site.

Can’t understand why such a bug is this old and still not fixed!

switch (menuItemType)
{
case …:
// This doesn’t work (returns null, no exception thrown)
var result:XMLList = myXMLList.(@myAttrib == …);
// This works.
var result:XMLList;
result = myXMLList.(@myAttrib == …);

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:30:17 +0000

Thanks!! I’ve been trying to work out what was going wrong for well over an hour… Thanks to your site and Google I have solved the problem! The whole programming team here thanks you!

By: nilloc

nilloc — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:20:22 +0000

Yeah i got a reply, from Adobe a couple of days ago, it looks like they discovered it around the same time I did:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/ASC-2901

By: Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:12:57 +0000

Yeah, I ran into this exact same problem. It will work fine inside the switch unless you do a filter predicate. I’m assuming it’s a problem with scoping that query. I find it surprising that this wasn’t caught. You’ve filed a bug report then?