Below is a sample app that uses labelFunction to access nested xml node values.
Also note the dataProvider specification: dataProvider="{gXMLDoc.firstChild.childNodes}". DataGrids want an array as a dataProvider, childNodes provides one. http://www.cflex.net/showfiledetails.cfm?ChannelID=1&Object=File&objectI D=258 Tracy -----Original Message----- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of flexcoder1 Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 10:22 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] display nested xml in a datagrid Hi. Can someone help with this question? It is driving me crazy! (the entire example is at the bottom of this post) There is more to this problem but I have tried to simplify it to the basic question below: Say I have the following xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Items> <Item Id="1" Title="Title1"> <Status Id="1" Name="Active" /> </Item> <Item Id="2" Title="Title2"> <Status Id="2" Name="Inactive" /> </Item> </Items> How can I display the current status name of each item in a data grid? I have tried: <mx:DataGrid id="gridStory" dataProvider="{mx.utils.ArrayUtil.toArray ( GetItems.result.Items.Item)}" width="100%" height="100%"> <mx:columns> <mx:Array> <mx:DataGridColumn columnName="Id" /> <mx:DataGridColumn columnName="Title" /> <mx:DataGridColumn columnName="Status" /> shows object Object - I want the item's Status.Name to appear <mx:DataGridColumn columnName="Status.Name" /> **** THIS DOES NOT WORK **** </mx:Array> </mx:columns> </mx:DataGrid> How can I show the status? If I just use <mx:DataGridColumn columnName="Status" /> the grid displays (as expected) object Object. Also, for this particular xml file it is not an option to just collapse the Status subtags into the Item tag and have something like: <Item Id="2" Title="Title2" StatusId="2" StatusName="Inactive" /> *** For reasons outside scope of question I cannot do this *** I know the above works correctly. Thanks for any help with this. Below is the entire example: test.mxml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml"> <mx:Model id="modItems" source="simple.xml"> </mx:Model> <mx:DataGrid id="gridStory" dataProvider="{modItems.Item}" width="100%" height="100%"> <mx:columns> <mx:Array> <mx:DataGridColumn columnName="Id" /> <mx:DataGridColumn columnName="Title" /> <mx:DataGridColumn columnName="Status" /> <mx:DataGridColumn columnName="Status.Name" /> </mx:Array> </mx:columns> </mx:DataGrid> </mx:Application> simple.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Items> <Item Id="1" Title="Title1"> <Status Id="1" Name="Active" /> </Item> <Item Id="2" Title="Title2"> <Status Id="2" Name="Inactive" /> </Item> </Items> Thanks for any help. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/