Opening a page in a browser when a choice is selected from the Menu

Question

The choice item is defined in MXML as
<menuitem label="Help">
                <menuitem label="Documentation" data="documentation.swf" />
            </menuitem>
Code on what to do when it is selected is
<mx:ApplicationControlBar id="appBar" x="0" y="0" dock="false" visible="false" width="100%">
        <mx:MenuBar id="appNavigation" dataProvider="{appNavigation_dp}" labelField="@label" iconField="@icon" itemClick="menuBarButtons(event);" />
    </mx:ApplicationControlBar>
Function called menuBarButtons is
private function menuBarButtons(event:MenuEvent):void{
                var pageName:String = event.item.@data;
                switch(pageName){
case 'Documentation':
                    var url:URLRequest = new URLRequest('http://www.mydocumentation.com');  
                        navigateToURL(url,'_blank');
                    break;
I have done the required imports such as
import flash.net.navigateToURL;
            import flash.net.URLRequest;
            import flash.net.URLVariables;
When I click on the Documentation option from the menu, no new URL opens
while I am expecting a page with a URL http://www.mydocumentation.com to be
opened
What am I missing?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Answer 1

try
var pageName:String = event.item.@label;
instead of
var pageName:String = event.item.@data;