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Asked: 2026-05-29T23:27:34+00:00

I thought I could use… studentID = myDataGid.selectedItem.studentID Does not want to work for

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I thought I could use…

studentID = myDataGid.selectedItem.studentID

Does not want to work for me. Tracing the expression in debug it is returning “XMLList (@11e55e8d1)”.

The datasource is an XMLListCollection. tracing the expression myDataGid.selectedItem I can see the studentID node and it has a value.

What am I doing wrong?

I see that starting with Flex 4.5, Adobe recommends that we use the spark.components.DataGrid class as an alternative to the mx:dataGrid which I am not at all familiar with or where to start to learn. I have this mx:dataGrid all setup and otherwise working and would prefer not to have to learn something new.

Thanks,

John

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  1. Editorial Team

    That looks ok – it returns the part of the xml data that you need. I presume it’s a matter of getting the data:

    studentID = myDataGid.selectedItem.studentID.toXMLString();

    The above returns the XMLList as a string, but you might need to get that as a Number (depending on the structure of your XML which isn’t visible).

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