AS3 is calling an xml node in a string a variable, what's going on here?

Question

I am working on a project that calls and searches an XML sheet that looks like this:

    <Searchtext Wordlookup="john smith">
        <location>$1</location>
        <Name>john smith</Name>
    </Searchtext>

and it continues like this for about 100+ people.

Now, my flash takes this data and allows the user to either click on a textbox (whose e.target.data.text is matched up to the xml using @Wordlookup) or type in the name of the person (again matching the textbox's content to @Wordlookup) which results in the location of that person lighting up (MC's are named the same as the location node for each). This end works perfectly fine using this code:

    var result:String = xmldata.Searchtext.(@Wordlookup == inputTxt.text.toLowerCase()).location.toString();

Now I want to do the opposite; click on a location, and the code will match up that movieclip's name to a location in my xml, and light up that location, and output the person's name in the textbox. Only problem in that Flash apparently thinks a node in my xml is now a variable that is undefined. I have looked high and low for a solution, but I just can't seem to solve it (it is probably simple, and I'll facepalm myself) The error inducing code is this:

    var resultz:String = xmldata.Searchtext.(location.text() == inputTxt2.text()).Name.toString();

And the error produced is this: ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable location is not defined.

EDIT: I originally had inputTxt2.text as e.target.name, but I'm throwing it in a textbox for now just so I can see it's outputting something that will match my location nodes.

Not sure exactly why this is happening, thank you in advance for any help!

ANOTHER EDIT: So adding .*. :

 var resultz:String = xmldata.*.Searchtext.(location.text() == inputTxt2.text()).Name.toString();

stopped it from creating th node as a variable, but it still returns null. Is there a better way to return the name from the matching location? It seems like it just isn't recognizing that the MC's name matches nodes in the XML....

Answer 1

    var xmldata:XML = new XML(
                <root>
                    <Searchtext Wordlookup="john smith">
                        <location>$1</location>
                        <Name>john smith</Name>
                    </Searchtext>
                </root>
            )

    var result1:String = xmldata.Searchtext.(@Wordlookup == "john smith").location.toString();
    trace(result1) // traces $1

    var result2:String = xmldata.Searchtext.(location == "$1").Name.toString()
    trace(result2) // traces john smith