Question

I’m totally new to Flex (moving away from Java for now :().

I have an XML file, I read the data and want to add it to a List and then use the List to be displayed.

Something like this is what I want to do:

List data = new ArrayList();

data.add(item1);
data.add(item2);

How can I do this, also how will I display the List in a table!!

Answer 1

Your question is rather… vague.

In Flex there are multiple ways to read data from XML and display it.
One approach would be using a HttpService to read the XML.
Then you can loop through the data manually or serve it as a DataProvider for a DataGrid.

I suggest you take a look at the Flex documentation, flexexamples.com and the flex quickstart. Topics that could help you:

• http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/quickstart/httpservice/
• http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/quickstart/using_data_providers/
• http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/07/26/displaying-xml-data-in-a-datagrid/