I’m so glad I found this and I’m not going mad. The braces solution works great. Of course you can also solve the problem by branching out of the switch statement into a new function too. Thanks!

switch (anything) {
case “testcase”:{
var xlData:XMLList = xmlData.Books.Book.(@author == ‘Dickens’);
}
break;
}

should fix it.

If you think about it, it kind of makes sense where the error is as inside a filter ‘this’ is scoped to the class however many methods are scoped to the current node thats being filtered. I can imagine the codes quite messy…

I didn’t have to use a function to fix, I simply declared the XML variable outside of the switch

var x:XML;

switch(item.name().toString()) {
case “section”:
x = content_data.section.(name == item.@label)[0];
break;

case “page”:
x = content_data.section.page.(name == item.@label)[0];
break;
}

//inside switch
var xml:XMLList = getFilteredXML(myXML.node1.node2, “languag”, “english”);
trace(xml);
//end of switch

private function getFilteredXML(_xml:XMLList, _attr:String, _val:String):XMLList {
return _xml.(attribute(_attr) == _val);
}

Simply takes the E4X filter out of the switch by way of a function call - works well too!

Found your site after the bug report gave me better search criteria.

Have you found any solutions other than a giant IF statement?