What do you get when you trace myData.getItemAt(0)? That will return null
if it isn't an XML. You can do this too:
trace("CHECK : " + (myData.getItemAt(0) is XML));
You can check to see if it is an XMLList too, but I thought looking at it,
it seemed like a flat xml.
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Stephen More <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thats what I was thinking but when I try:
>
> var myXML:XML;
> myXML = myData.getItemAt(0) as XML;
> trace( "DEBUG: " + myXML );
>
> I get
> DEBUG: null
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Sean Clark Hess <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]<seanhess%40gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> > Each row is an xml object...
> >
> > So, (myData.getItemAt(i) as XML).children()
> >
> > Then you could loop through the children and ask them for their name.
> After
> > the as XML step you can do anything you can normally do with the XML
> object
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Stephen More <[EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]<stephen.more%40gmail.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> ( Example code taken from:
> >> http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/html/charts_intro_108_12.html )
> >> Here is the dataset I am trying to work with:
> >>
> >> <data>
> >> <result month="Jan-04">
> >> <apple>81768</apple>
> >> <orange>60310</orange>
> >> <banana>43357</banana>
> >> </result>
> >> <result month="Feb-04">
> >> <apple>81156</apple>
> >> <orange>58883</orange>
> >> <banana>49280</banana>
> >> </result>
> >> </data>
> >>
> >> The flex code will look like this:
> >> <mx:HTTPService
> >> id="srv"
> >> url="../assets/data.xml"
> >> useProxy="false"
> >> result="myData=ArrayCollection(srv.lastResult.data.result)"
> >> />
> >>
> >> How can I interrogate the ArrayCollection named myData so that it will
> >> return apple, orange, and banana ?
> >> I am not looking to get the numerical values, I want to get the xml
> name.
> >>
> >> -Thanks
> >> Steve More
> >
> >
>
>
