When you do: var xml : XML = <someDocument>;
It looks like it's a normal hierarchical Object the way you can get things via: [EMAIL PROTECTED] But it's not really, it's an E4X object, which is a special case. You can do all sorts of funky stuff, but until you reference a "text" node or an Attribute (which will always be a string), every Object you get back will be an XML or XMLList, which is just sort of a "pointer" to one or more nodes inside your original root XML. When you call someXML.newName = myDate; >From the top of my head, what's really happening is the creationg of a new node named "newName" which contains a single text node containing myDate.toString(), or perhaps the result of a call to SimpleXMLEncoder or something along those lines. -Josh On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Frank Sommers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to figure out how to add a non-XML property to an XML > object. The XML object implements both the . and [] operators so that > anything assigned via these operators becomes XML or XMLList. I would > like to somehow revert to the regular behavior for the . and [] > operators so that I can assign non-XML properties to an XML object. > > For example, I may have an XML object as in: > > var x:XML = <xmlobj/>; > > And a variable, such as: > > var d:Date = new Date(); > > I would like to be able to assign the value of d as a Date to x. With > a regular object, this works just fine: > > var o:Object = new Object(); > o.date = d; > > But using the same notation for the XML object creates an XMLList, > i.e., a child of the XML object: > > x.date = d; > // x.date is now an XMLList. > > Is there a way to override this behavior so that d is added as a Date? > > Thanks, > > -- Frank > > ------------------------------------ > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups > Links > > > > -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
