I figured it out and committed a fix.
> On Aug 28, 2017, at 12:07 PM, Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Given the following XML in Flash:
> var xml:XML = <root/>;
> xml.bar.foo.baz = "baz";
>
> You get an XML structure like so:
> <root>
> <bar>
> <foo>
> <baz>
> baz
> </baz>
> </foo>
> </bar>
> </root>
>
> In JS, this compiles to the following:
>
> var /** @type {XML} */ xml = new XML( '<root/>');
> xml.child('bar').child('foo').setChild('baz', "baz");
>
> .child() returns an empty XMLList
> .setChild() tries to add a child to that empty list and does not create the
> structure.
>
> I’m not sure how to best solve this problem.
>
> One idea would be to add a new function called getChild() which would return
> an existing element if it exists and create a new one if not. Then we could
> have the compiler rewrite the output to:
>
> xml.getChild('bar').getChild('foo').setChild('baz', "baz");
>
> I’d prefer to try and figure out how to have setChild walk up the reference
> tree and create the correct elements automatically. I’m having trouble
> figuring out how to do that though.
>
> Harbs
