DataGrid dataProvider XML with Namespaces,

Question

I have a DataGrid wich dataProvider is a XMLList. The problem
is that, the xml has a default namespace, and in my DataGridColumns
I use the dataField property to define wich XML field should be
displayed. The problem is that the dataField property is used in a
way that do not take into consideration the xml namespace.
I'm already using the use namespace directive with the right
namespace, but that doesn't work.
Has anyone tried to do something similar?

Answer 1

This is similar to a problem I stumbled into described in
another post. What I ended up doing was creating a labelFunction
for each column and using the value (without the namespace) as the
element name. In ActionScript you can use the QName to get a child
element:
private function getItemValue(data:Object,
column:DataGridColumn):String {
return data.child(new QName(mb, column.dataField));
Note that "mb" was a namespace variable I declared at a
module level. I couldn't find a more elegant way of overcoming this
namespace deficiency of the built in controls. I suppose you could
also extend the DataGrid control, add a namespace attribute and
override the appropriate function that provides the default
rendering. However, that is something for another day.... Hope this
helps.
Dan