Help a noob with a parse error. Completely new to Flex, doesn't know anything.

Question

Hi. I am completely new to Flex (and mxml and ActionScript) and have a silly little error right off the bat. I haven't written a line of code yet, and got the source files from a collegue (who is currently unavailable to help me out here) that obviously had this working before he gave it to me.
I am getting a parse error with the following lines. From my experience with PHP, I have a general idea that a parse error is usually a syntax thing, like a missing semicolon or something along that line. I've already tried semicolons in a bunch of places, but nothing seems to work. Any help would be appreciated. The X is where the program highlights the error.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- Build with 3.1 -->
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"  layout="absolute"  xmlns:tg = "EditableTextGrid.*" xmlns:ns1="com.testURL.commonClasses.grid.*" viewSourceURL="srcview/index.html"
X verticalAlign="middle" implements="EditableTextGrid.ETGParent" >
initialize= "setLogin('testUser'); loadMatrix('module=portal&amp;mode=i&amp;searchString=1111')"
<!--initialize="setLogin('testUser'); loadMatrix('module=serviceview&amp;mode=i&amp;colName=SID&amp;searchString=290')"-->
    <mx:Style source="styles/AcctRequest.css"/>
Severity and Description
Path
Resource
Location
Creation Time
Id
Parse error at '\n initialize= \"setLogin(\'ngorelik\'); loadMatrix(\'module=portal&mode=i&searchString=1111\')\"\n\n\t'.
CV/src
contactsSWF.mxml
line 4
1319810874686
130
Other info: it was actually written with Flex 3.2 SDK

Answer 1

You are missing a quote at the end of your "setLogin(testUser)" function and you don't have that inside a tag (it's outside the greater than sign...
You have:
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"  layout="absolute"  xmlns:tg = "EditableTextGrid.*" xmlns:ns1="com.testURL.commonClasses.grid.*" viewSourceURL="srcview/index.html"
X verticalAlign="middle" implements="EditableTextGrid.ETGParent" >
initialize= "setLogin('testUser'); loadMatrix('module=portal&amp;mode=i&amp;searchString=1111')"
It should be:
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"  layout="absolute"  xmlns:tg = "EditableTextGrid.*" xmlns:ns1="com.testURL.commonClasses.grid.*" viewSourceURL="srcview/index.html"
X verticalAlign="middle" implements="EditableTextGrid.ETGParent"  initialize= "{setLogin(testUser)}"...>