Creating XML dynamically

Question

Hi,
I need to create XML which follows this exact structure:
<root>
    <node>
        <row>
            <item>item01</item>
            <item>item02</item>
        </row>
        <row>
            <item>item03</item>
            <item>item04</item>
        </row>
        <row>
            <item>item05</item>
            <item>item06</item>
        </row>
    </node>
</root>
but I need to do it dynamically, so I am doing this:
var xml:XML = <root></root>;
xml.appendChild(<node></node>);
xml.child("node").appendChild(<row></row>);
xml.child("node").child("row").appendChild(<item>item01</item>);
xml.child("node").child("row").appendChild(<item>item02</item>);
xml.child("node").appendChild(<row></row>);
xml.child("node").child("row").appendChild(<item>item03</item>);
xml.child("node").child("row").appendChild(<item>item04</item>);
and I get this error:
TypeError: Error #1086: The appendChild method only works on lists containing one item.
    at XMLList/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::appendChild()
    at xml_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
Any suggestions as to what I can do?  I can change the format as the script on the server is expecting this format.
I have tried using SimpleXMLEncoder and tried creating the XML from an Object but neither of these helped.
Any suggestions warmly welcome...
Thanks

Answer 1

try:
var xml:XML = <root></root>;
xml.appendChild(<node></node>);
xml.child("node").appendChild(<row></row>);
xml.child("node").child("row").appendChild(<item>item01</item>);
xml.child("node").child("row").appendChild(<item>item02</item>);
xml.child("node").appendChild(<row></row>);
xml.child("node").row[1].appendChild(<item>item03</item>);
xml.child("node").row[1].appendChild(<item>item04</item>);