The default resultFormat is "object", which attempts to cnvert your xml into a tree of dynamic objects, making its best guess about the data types.
Switch to resultFormat="e4x" which will give you your data in its unmodified xml/string format. Tracy Spratt, Lariat Services, development services available _____ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of danapayne Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 9:44 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] XML data translated to wrong datatype I have one particular piece of data in an XML file, retrieved via HTTPService, that is being mistakenly being translated incorrectly. I'm using a Value Object and it's defined in there as a String datatype. There's not a problem until the data contains something that can be interpreted as exponential notation, for example 1E01, which it thinks means the number "10" or anything starting with 1E. At first I tried to fix it in the Value Object but I've looked at the debug information and this translation appears to be happening at the HTTPService end of things because the result event already shows the changed value. BTW, this same annoying thing happens in an Excel spreadsheet with the same data in it - Excel keeps wanting to interpret it as a Number type. Anyone know how I can fix this problem and let the data come through unchanged? Dana
