No, I advise resultFormat="e4x".
"xml" is the old fashioned AS2 xml object. E4x is MUCH better. Trust me. But yes, debug the result. Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony DeBonis Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 5:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: XML, does it have to be RSS? On your httpService set resultFormat="xml" Then use debugger to see what you get back in result event to then see how to pick out what your looking for. Should work with out a problem. --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does the XML data HAVE to be an RSS? If I change > > <rss version="2.0" > xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/ <http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/> " > xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/ <http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/> " > xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> "> > > To > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> > > The load fails. I haven't worked to much with XML so a lot of this is > new to me. > > *** > > I am using the following syntax: > > private function onFeedResult(event:ResultEvent):void { > var xml:XML = new XML(event.message.body); > xml.ignoreWhitespace = true; > feedItems = new XMLListCollection(xml.foo.item); > panelTitle = xml.foo.title; > } > > > > <mx:HTTPService > id="dataRequest" > url="data/data.xml" > result="onFeedResult(event);" > useProxy="false"/> > > > Any suggestions? I'm somewhat new to Flex having worked mostly with > older versions of Flash. > > > - Jason >
