var dq:DisplayQuery = new DisplayQuery(this);
//getChildByName() with @
var grandChild:Sprite = dq.@childName.@grandChildName.toDisplayObject();

//or

//descendants operator
grandChild = dq..@grandChildName.toDisplayObject();

I haven’t released it yet, but the code is floating around on my Google Code account: org.josht.dq.*. The classes work as closely to XML and XMLList as I could make them.

In the future, I may add support for CSS-style selectors, in addition to the @ and .. operators. I have a proof of concept where the code looks something like this:

var tf:TextField = dq..$["Sprite>TextField"];