dataField can take only a simple string, not an expression. This means the property you want must be a top-level property of the dataprovider item object.
For an xml node, you can use dataField for first level child nodes(text node of those only) or attributes of the node. To specify an attribute you use @AttributeName. I can't tell from your posting exactly what your dataProvider items are. Are they the <a> nodes? Or the <span> nodes? What does your dataProvider assignment look like? To go deeper into a node structure, you must use a labelFunction() which lets you have anything your want. Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rmonson_us Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 4:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] DataGridColumn dataField cannot select an attribute of an element. Why? I'm accessing an XML document using HTTPService. I've bound the last result to a DataGrid and the DataGridColumn to the text value of an <a> element with no problem. Now I want to bind to an attribute in the a elemenet (i.e. href), but I can't figure out the syntax to be used in the dataField property. Here is the XML i'm accessing <html><body> <span><a class="Customer" href="http://localhost:8080/nfjs/customer?id=103 <http://localhost:8080/nfjs/customer?id=103> " >Atelier graphique</a> <br/></span> <span><a class="Customer" href="http://localhost:8080/nfjs/customer?id=112 <http://localhost:8080/nfjs/customer?id=112> " >Signal Gift Stores</a> <br/></span> ... I can get the value of the <a> attribute into the first column but I want to put the href attribute value into the second column. How should I set the dataField property. I've tried dataField="a.href", dataField="a/href", dataField="[EMAIL PROTECTED]", dataField="a/@href", dataField="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with no success. Is it possible to specify an XML attribute from the dataField property? Thanks, Richard
