[flexcoders] Help with XML Data

[markcavins]

Ok so here's the skinny:

I have this flex app that works fine
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";
layout="absolute" width="100%" viewSourceURL="srcview/index.html">
        <mx:Style source="source.css"/>
        <mx:Image x="15" y="4" source="images/title.jpg" width="210"
height="65"/>
        <mx:Image source="images/title1.jpg" id="image1"
horizontalAlign="right" verticalAlign="top" top="3"  width="784"
height="58" x="241"/>
         <mx:XML id="tempXML"
source="http://development.company.net/interface.php?username=user&amp;password=pass&amp;customer=customer&amp;action=showopen&amp;operation=defects&amp;format=xml&amp;critcal=both";
/>

                        <mx:XMLListCollection id="defectXMLList" 
source="{tempXML.defect}" />
                         <mx:DataGrid id="dataGrid" 
dataProvider="{defectXMLList}"
width="1024" rowCount="{defectXMLList.length + 1}" x="0" y="62"
borderThickness="2" borderColor="#fda600" themeColor="#fda600"
alternatingItemColors="[#fda600, #ffffff]" cornerRadius="0"
color="#000000" borderStyle="none" alpha="0.73">
                               <mx:columns>
                                   
                                   <mx:DataGridColumn id="assetCol" 
dataField="asset"
headerText="Asset:" />
                                   <mx:DataGridColumn id="componentCol"
dataField="component" headerText="Component:" />
                                   <mx:DataGridColumn id="conditionCol"
dataField="condition" headerText="Condition:" />
                                   <mx:DataGridColumn id="ffdCol" 
dataField="ffd"
headerText="FFD:" />
                                   <mx:DataGridColumn id="inspidCol" 
dataField="inspid"
headerText="Inspection ID:" />
                                   <mx:DataGridColumn id="mileageCol" 
dataField="mileage"
headerText="Mileage:" />
                                   
                                </mx:columns>
                           </mx:DataGrid>
</mx:Application>

However they now want to just display the asset and not in a data grid
but as a horizontal list and I have tried and tried to look for an
effective example of this and how to make it work.
I have tried Horizontal List, Vertical List, HBox, and VBox but all I
want the thing to do for now is to just display data 
Horizontally.

any help would be great