No, you don't, I see you are converting it to e4x XML. First, skip that step. Set resultFormat="e4x" on the WebService tag.
Change your test snippet: treeData:XML = <Rows> ... </Rows> Then: //////skip this var treeData:XML = new XML(ROWS.toString()); //////skip this myData = new XMLListCollection(treeData.Row); this.dataProvider= treeData; //is this code in a component that extends mx:Tree? So "this" is a tree? This will produce a tree with a "Rows" root node. Set showRoot="false" on the tree to prevent that. Now: var xlChildren:XMLList = treeData.children(); myTree.expandItem(xlChildren[0]); //will expand the first child See the example I posted earlier in this thread for an example how to search for an id and expand that node. Bacically it is: var xmlSelect:XML = treeData.row.(@id=="3")[0]; myTree.expandItem(xmlSelect); //will expand the row with id==3; use ".." or "descendants" to go arbitrarily deep in the tree. Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracy Spratt Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 7:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Tree and ITreeDataDescriptor Wait, wait. Do you have a very good reason for using that obsolete class? E4x is much, much more functional. Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hmmmbeer3 Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Tree and ITreeDataDescriptor --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Tracy Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am not speaking of the tree, but of the xml. It has a root or it is > not xml. I guess you just have showRoot="false" on the tree? > > > > When accessing tree nodes, you almost always use the use the underlying > dataProvider, which will be the e4x api. > > > > What do you want to do with the first-level child nodes? > > > > Tracy > Tracy, first let me say thanks for your help so far - its really appreciated. Now I'm still trying to get my head around data-binding, especially with a recursive tree. The raw data comes in as a flash XMLNode (thats the api - interface) and here's some sample XML and a code snippet I use to populate the tree: ROWS:XMLNode = <Rows> <Row id="1" name="New South Wales"> <Row id="2" name="Sydney"> </Row> <Row id="3" name="Queensland"/> </Rows> var myData:XMLListCollection; ... var treeData:XML = new XML(ROWS.toString()); myData = new XMLListCollection(treeData.Row); this.dataProvider=myData; The ROWS var is actually a parameter to this method. If there is a better or more elegant way to populate the tree, I would love to use it. As for what I want with the first-level nodes, well nothing now that the validateNow() method has made everythign work - I was just curious how to get them, and I am still in the dark. How would I call getChildren() using the above scenario? Cheers, Radek
