Thanks! That did it... makes sense why it did what it did when i had quotes... just in case i really did want that as a literal.
I'm a newbie at flex... if only i could get my company to use it more for our web apps.... unfortunately we have MS Gold certified blinders on sometimes. Go Flex!!! --- In [email protected], David Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > You don't need the quotes when assigning it to an attribute, myXml:XML = > <Option value={myString}></option> should do the trick. > > > scott_flex wrote: > > > > how come the following does not work > > > > var myString:String = "Test data"; > > var myXml:XML = <Option value="{myString}"></option> > > //not string substituion occurs, "{myString}" is just inserted as a > > literal. > > > > but this does: > > > > var myString:String = "Test data"; > > var myXml:XML = <Option>{myString}</option> > > // {myString} is property repaced wiht the text "Test data"... as I > > would expect. > > > > For some reason i can't bind or use the {} notation when creating an > > XML object and trying to assign attributes of an element... but it > > does work when i use the {} notation to insert text between the begin > > and end tags of a node. > > > > Am i doing something wrong? Or is this a limitation.... seems silly > > if it is. > > > > >
