Using an XML data provider with the Spark List control in Flex 4

By On November 4, 2009 · 20 Comments

The following example shows how you can use an XML document as a data provider for a Spark List control in Flex 4 by using an XMLListCollection.

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Deleting nodes from an XML object in Flex

By On July 23, 2009 · 9 Comments

The following example shows how you can delete nodes from an XML object using the delete operator.

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Displaying dynamically loaded XML in a DataGrid control in Flex

By On December 10, 2008 · 11 Comments

The following example shows how you can display dynamically loaded XML data (with namespaces) in a Flex DataGrid control.

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Inspecting the properties in a class using the describeType() method and E4X/XML

By On September 19, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can use the describeType() method to inspect a class’s accessor methods.

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Parsing XML nodes and Objects with dashes in their names in ActionScript 3.0

By On August 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can parse an XML node with a dash in its node name (<font-family />) as well as parsing an Object with a dash in it’s identifier using the square bracket notation ([]).

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Setting the node indentation level when calling the toXMLString() method in ActionScript 3.0

By On August 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the amount of indentation used when calling the toXMLString() method by setting the static XML.prettyIndent property in ActionScript.

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Ignoring comments in an XML file in ActionScript 3.0

By On August 22, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can ignore comment tags (<!-- … -->) in an XML document by setting the static XML.ignoreComments property.

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Determining the XML class’s settings in ActionScript 3.0

By On August 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can get the XML class’s current settings by calling the static XML.settings() method.

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Converting objects to XML packets using the SimpleXMLEncoder class in Flex

By On March 4, 2008 · 16 Comments

In a previous example, “Converting XML to objects using the Flex SimpleXMLDecoder class”, we saw how to convert an XML instance into an Object instance using the SimpleXMLDecoder class and decodeXML() method.

The following example shows how you can convert an array of objects into an XML object using the SimpleXMLEncoder class and encodeValue() [...]

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Displaying images from an XML file using the Repeater component

By On October 3, 2007 · 12 Comments

The following example shows you how to use the Repeater component to display images loaded from an external XML file.

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Converting XML to objects using the Flex SimpleXMLDecoder class

By On September 19, 2007 · 23 Comments

Similar to the previous post, “Converting XML to objects using the Flex HTTPService MXML tag“, the following example shows how you can use the decodeXML() method in the SimpleXMLDecoder class to convert an XMLDocument object into an ActionScript Object object.

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Converting XML to objects using the Flex HTTPService MXML tag

By On September 19, 2007 · 20 Comments

The following example shows how you can convert an XML file loaded at run-time using the HTTPService tag, into an ActionScript Object by simply setting the resultFormat property to “object”.

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