Need help in displaying a feed within my flex app

Question

Hello guys,
I was hoping that someone can push me in the right direction. I am looking to display our feed within our Flex Application. I am using some of the sample from tour de flex
This is what I have so far:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:WindowedApplication xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
     xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
     xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
     width="960" height="850">
     <fx:Script>
     <![CDATA[
          import flashx.textLayout.conversion.TextConverter;
          import flashx.textLayout.elements.TextFlow;
          import spark.utils.TextFlowUtil;
          XML.ignoreWhitespace = false;
     ]]>
     </fx:Script>
     <fx:Style>
          @namespace s "library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark";
          @namespace mx "library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx";
          @namespace components "components.*";
          s|WindowedApplication {
               background-color:#000000;
               background-alpha:"0.9";
          s|ButtonBar s|ButtonBarButton:upAndSelected,
          s|ButtonBar s|ButtonBarButton:overAndSelected,
          s|ButtonBar s|ButtonBarButton:downAndSelected,
          s|ButtonBar s|ButtonBarButton:disabledAndSelected {
               chromeColor: #00529c;
               color: #FFFFFF;
          s|ButtonBar {
               chromeColor: #053867;
               color: #FFFFFF;
     </fx:Style>
     <fx:Declarations>
          <!-- Place non-visual elements (e.g., services, value objects) here -->
          <!--<s:HTTPService id="srv" url="http://feeds.feedburner.com/standforisrael/iWIn?format=xml" />-->
          <fx:XML id="srv" source="http://feeds.feedburner.com/standforisrael/iWIn?format=xml" />
     </fx:Declarations>
     <s:ButtonBar dataProvider="{myViewStack}" y="175" height="35" width="700" />
     <mx:ViewStack id="myViewStack" borderStyle="none" x="0" y="209" width="700" height="500">
          <s:NavigatorContent id="home" label="Home">
          </s:NavigatorContent>
          <s:NavigatorContent id="about" label="About Us">
          </s:NavigatorContent>
          <s:NavigatorContent id="rabbi" label="Rabbi Eckstein">
          </s:NavigatorContent>
          <s:NavigatorContent id="rabbiCom" label="Rabbi's Commentary">
          </s:NavigatorContent>
          <s:NavigatorContent id="programs" label="Our Blog">
               <s:RichText id="rt5" width="280"
                    textFlow="{TextFlowUtil.importFromXML(srv)}" />
          </s:NavigatorContent>
     </mx:ViewStack>
</s:WindowedApplication>
Now when I run this I get a prompt that is telling me that if the program is already running to stop the program... I have no idea what program it is that i'm running that would prompt that type of dialogue box.
I also get these errors:
Unexpected processing instruction encountered and will be ignored. Found: type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css" IFCJ.mxml /IFCJ/src Unknown Flex Problem
Unexpected processing instruction encountered and will be ignored. Found: type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl" IFCJ.mxml /IFCJ/src Unknown Flex Problem
Is there anything that I am not doing right here?
Any help would really be appreciated,
Thank You

Answer 1

I did try HTTPService but the problem that I was seeing was that I would need to push the information into a datagrid and that really doesn't help me witth presentation of the blog posts.
What if I create a custom component that takes the RSS feed and parses it into sections like so:
Title
Description
Link
Where lets say the title is like so:
[Bindable]
            public var title:String; <-- this is where I get stuck
<s:Label x="0" y="80"
        text="{title}"/>
I would like to also have that title wrapped in a url so that when the person is looking at our RSS they can click either the title or the read more link
What else can i do?