You can't convert directly, unless you use resultFormat="object"(default), which converts your sml into a nested dynamic object structure. But you have no control over this conversion, and it can have some side-effects, particularly with data type conversions.
People often convert xml into an ArrayCollection of strongly typed objects, because accessing strongly typed pbjects is significantly faster than accessing XML, which this can help performance with very large data displays (hundreds of renderers). You will need to loop over the XMLList (xmlData.score), and build the value object items and add them to the ArrayCollection manually. But, why not simply use XMLListCollection? hScores = new XMLListCollection(xmlData.score); Tracy ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of t_singe Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 12:49 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Newbie XML to ArrayCollection Confusion I'm hoping someone can help explain how to retrieve an XML doc via webservice and then create an ArrayCollection from it. Using the code and xml below, I am able to retrieve the xml alright and access the nodes, but when I attempt to convert the xml object to an array I end up with a single element array. My xml document looks like: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> - <scores> <score position="1">4</score> <score position="2">1</score> <score position="3">2</score> <score position="4">3</score> <score position="5">5</score> <score position="6">0</score> <score position="7">9</score> <score position="8">6</score> <score position="9">8</score> <score position="10">7</score> </scores> My webservice event handler looks like: public function hScoresHandler(event:ResultEvent):void { var xmlResult:XML ; var hScores = new ArrayCollection(); xmlResult = new XML(event.result); // This properly outputs the entire XML document trace(xmlResult); // These properly output the content from different nodes in the // XMLM document trace("first (0) position: " + xmlResult.score[0]); trace("five position: " + xmlResult.score[5]); trace("five position: " + [EMAIL PROTECTED]); // Convert XML to Array hScores = ArrayUtil.toArray(xmlResult); // For some reason this outputs a null string trace(hScores); // Why is the length only one? trace("length: " + hScores.length); }
