Honestly, I do not know as I have not worked with XMLListCollections.
I just need to be able to access the data easily and have only used
Array Collections. It looks like an XMLListCollection might work. Is
there a benefit of using one over the other?
--- In [email protected], "Gordon Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Could you use an XMLListCollection instead of an ArrayCollection?
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> Gordon Smith
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> Adobe Flex SDK Team
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> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
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> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 4:52 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [flexcoders] XMLList to ArrayCollection
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> Sure, but you have to do it manually. Loop over the nodes, then use the
> attributes() to loop over the attributes. If I recall correctly,
> attribute[n] will give you the attr value, and attribute[n].name() will
> give you the attr name. XML.name() (or localName()) will give you the
> name of the node.
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> Tracy
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> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of sdl1326
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 5:56 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [flexcoders] XMLList to ArrayCollection
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> I am retrieving the following xml via httpsService with the result
> format being 'e4x'.
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> <projects>
> <project date="08/01/08" description="Development" hours="4"
> user="AA">Q3</project>
> <project date="08/01/08" description="Development" hours="3"
> user="AA">Q4</project>
> <project date="08/04/08" description="Development" hours="4"
> user="AA">Q3</project>
> <project date="08/04/08" description="Development" hours="3"
> user="BB">Q4</project>
> <project date="08/05/08" description="Refinement" hours="6"
> user="BB">Q3</project>
> <project date="08/06/08" description="Refinement" hours="3"
> user="CC">Q3</project>
> <project date="08/07/08" description="Development" hours="2"
> user="CC">Q3</project>
> <project date="08/08/08" description="Development" hours="2"
> user="CC">Q3</project>
> </projects>
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> What's the best way to convert an XMLList to an ArrayCollection? Is it
> possible to do so without knowing the names of the attributes?
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> Thanks for the assistance.
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