Loading multiple XML files into one XMLList

Question

I am working on an app where I will load a list of recipes.  Each recipe is an XML file.  I would have an XML file that lists the filenames that need to be loaded.  I am assuming in can use one HTTPService and loop through this list, and set the url and do myService.send() until all the xml files have been loaded and concatenated into one xml list. True?
My main question here is how do I load each XML file and add it to the same XMLList?
Assume each XML file's root tag is <recipe>.  I want to create an XMLList with the root  <recipes> with each <recipe> as a first child.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Why don't you use the Data centric workflows which will help you to deal with multiple XML files as AS objects? Something like this
1. Create a HTTPService using Data menu -> Connect to HTTPService
2. create a operation getRecipe and enter your URL example URL: http://myserver/recipe?name=recipename
3. Use Configure Return Type to tell that this method returns a Recipe class
4. Use DataBinding to bind the result of this to a DataGrid
Call the following in a loop and
recipeName = myRecipes+ // All of your recipe names, Recipe is a ArrayCollecition
Recipe.setAt(i) = Svc1.getRecipe(recipeName);
At the end you would have a Recipe[]
This is one of the ways you could work instead of having a XMLListCollection and use e4x etc. to go through your collection.
Let us know if this helps, or you are looking for something else.
Thanks
-Sunil