It's because the Link component's label is not html enabled.
Why, this seems to work fine for me:
<mx:Link id="link" />
<mx:Button label="Set Link Label" click="setLinkLabel()" />
<mx:Script>
function setLinkLabel()
{
link.label = "Manish's link";
}
</mx:Script>I think the problem is somewhere else.
Christophe's blog reader example uses resultFormat="object" (default), which doesn't seem to have this problem.
Manish

