That's crazy :) Can you post a small piece of the xml? Cheers Ralf.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:09 PM, cjsutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Once again, I've hit a roadblock with Flex for something that should > be easy as pie. > > Here's the problem: I'm loading in an XML feed from Flickr, a list of > photoset IDs. There's nothing wrong or unusual about the XML document. > > I load the XML into an ArrayCollection, and can view all the data just > fine, except the ONE element I need... the ID number. Flex is > screwing it up somehow. > > For example, the ID number in the XML file looks like this: > 72157607109678346 > > However, when Flex returns the ID number, it becomes: 72157607109678350 > > Every ID is changed like that, but it's not consistent. The first > one, 4 is added to the ID. In the next, 12 is subtracted. No rhyme > or reason. > > What Flex is doing to this number or why it's doing it escapes me. > I've tried copying the XML file locally and appending the ID with a > character... it then comes across fine. So Flex thinks the ID is some > kind of number datatype, and manipulating it somehow. > > Any idea how to make Flex cut that out? > >