Question

I’m new to Actionscript.
I’m developing a flex mobile project using the wikipedia api which returns an xml with namespace like this.

<SearchSuggestion version="2.0" xmlns="http://opensearch.org/searchsuggest2">
<Query xml:space="preserve">xml</Query>
<Section>
 <Item>
    <Text xml:space="preserve">XML</Text>
    <Description xml:space="preserve">Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a set of          rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. </Description>
    <Url xml:space="preserve">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML</Url>
  </Item>
</Section>
</SearchSuggestion>

But it cannot be recognized as an xml.I’ve tried several ways to deal with the namespace
like

private function removeNamespace(xml:XML):XML
{
var rawXMLString:String=xml.toXMLString();
var xmlnsPattern:RegExp=new RegExp("xmlns=[^\"]*\"[^\"]*\"","gi");
    var clean:String=rawXMLString.replace(xmlnsPattern,"");
    return new XML(clean);
}
protected function request_resultHandler(event:ResultEvent):void
{

trace(event.result.toString());
responseXML=removeNamespace(new XML(event.result));
resultlist=responseXML.Section;
trace(responseXML.toString());
}
<s:List includeIn="normal" left="0" right="0" top="0" bottom="0" dataProvider="    {resultlist.Item}" labelField="Text"></s:List>

Is there any possible way to deal with this problem and simply convert it into a valid xml and successfully shown in a list.

Answer 1

Have you look on how to deal with namespaces?