Simple dataProvider for dataGrid question

Question

I have a question about accessing some values from an
xmllist. I have a piece of xml that is returned from an httpservice
that looks similar to this.
<topnode>
<list>
<item>value</item>
<item>value2</item>
<item>value3</item>
</list>
</topnode>
I'm interested in creating a datagrid to display the values
of each list.item, so: value, value2, value3. I'm not sure what my
data provider should look like in this case since there are no
nodes underneath the repeating node.
I can create an xml list like:
myList = event.result.list.item
but this gives me an xmllist with values of [0].item.value,
[1].item.value etc. I'm just unsure how to setup my datagrid to
extract values from the item node.
I think if my xml looked like the following I could access it
like:
(in my httpservice result handler)
myList = event.result as XML
(the datagrid provider would look like)
dataProvider={myList.item}
(and the column would have an entry like this)
dataField="name"
<topnode>
<list>
<item>
<name>bob</name>
</item>
<item>
<name>stan</name>
</item>
<item>
<name>bill</name>
</item>
</list>
</topnode>
But in my case, the value I'm extracting is the value set at
the top level node that repeats. Maybe I'm missing something
obvious here.
Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Thanks again for responding. I've tried that, but when I do
all the values show up in the first row of the datagrid. Which
looks like this:
<item>value</item>
<item>value2</item>
<item>value3</item>
Perhaps I'm making an incorrect assumption below:
[Bindable]
public var myList:XMLList;
myList = event.result.list;
<mx:DataGrid dataProvider="{myList}" width="100%">
<mx:columns>
<mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Names"
dataField="item"/>
</mx:columns>
</mx:DataGrid>
xml from server:
<topnode>
<list>
<item>value</item>
<item>value2</item>
<item>value3</item>
</list>
</topnode>