How to specify XML declaration in an XML Variable

Question

I had posted this question in the Flex Builder discussion,
but I am not sure if that was the right board, so posting it again
here:
I need to set the XML declaration for my XML variable as
follows:
var employees:XML =
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<employees>
<employee ssn="123-123-1234">
<name first="John" last="Doe"/>
<address>
<street>11 Main St.</street>
<city>San Francisco</city>
<state>CA</state>
<zip>98765</zip>
</address>
</employee>
<employee ssn="789-789-7890">
<name first="Mary" last="Roe"/>
<address>
<street>99 Broad St.</street>
<city>Newton</city>
<state>MA</state>
<zip>01234</zip>
</address>
</employee>
</employees>;
However, if I specify <?xml version="1.0"
encoding="utf-8"?>, I get a design time and compile error. If I
remove it it works fine. But the server to which I send this XML is
expecting the declaration. How can I set the declaration?
Any help or pointer is appreciated.

Answer 1

I am not able to load the xml. Can anybody figure out the
problem :
I have used a LoadXML class :
package {
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.net.*;
// Demonstrates the code required to load external XML
public class LoadXML extends Sprite {
// The property that will eventually contain the loaded XML
private var novel:XML;
// The object used to load the XML
private var urlLoader:URLLoader;
// Constructor
public function LoadXML () {
// Specify the location of the external XML
var urlRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("novel.xml");
// Create an object that can load external text data
urlLoader = new URLLoader();
// Register to be notified when the XML finishes loading
urlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,
completeListener);
// Load the XML
urlLoader.load(urlRequest);
// Method invoked automatically when the XML finishes
loading
private function completeListener(e:Event):void {
// The string containing the loaded XML is stored in the
URLLoader
// object's data property (urlLoader.data). To create a new
XML
// instance from that loaded string, we pass it to the XML
constructor
novel = new XML(urlLoader.data);
trace(novel.toXMLString()); // Display the loaded XML, now
converted
// to an XML object
And in main.mxml :
myXml = new LoadXml ;
trace ( myXml.novel ) ;
The output is errenous