Convert String to XMLListCollection

Hi,

I have a XMLLIstCollection and I coverted the XMLLIstCollection to String(XMLLIstCollection.toString()) and send it to database. Similarky, I would like to receive the stored string value from the database and show it in Tree. For this, I am trying to convert the String to XMLListCollection(StringVariable as XMLListCollection) and it has null value.

It it possible to typecast/convert a String to XMLListCollection?

Thanks!

Convert String to XMLListCollection

This example answers your question. Note how I cast the string to an XMLList, and then use e4x syntax to extract the XML data to populate the XMLListCollection.

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%26lt;?xml version=''1.0'' encoding=''utf-8''?%26gt;
%26lt;mx:Application xmlns:mx=''http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml''
聽 creationComplete=''init();''%26gt;
聽 %26lt;mx:Script%26gt;
聽聽聽 %26lt;![CDATA[
聽聽聽聽聽 import mx.collections.XMLListCollection;
聽聽聽聽聽 private var strXML:String = ''%26lt;myData%26gt;%26lt;item%26gt;%26lt;fname%26gt;Bob%26lt;/fname%26gt;%26lt;lname%26gt;Smith%26lt;/lname%26gt;%26lt;/item%26gt;%26lt;item%26gt;%26lt;fname%26gt;Tim%26lt;/f name%26gt;%26lt;lname%26gt;Carson%26lt;/lname%26gt;%26lt;/item%26gt;%26lt;item%26gt;%26lt;fname%26gt;Jon%26lt;/fname%26gt;%26lt;lname%26gt;Casey%26lt;/lname%26gt;%26lt;/i tem%26gt;%26lt;/myData%26gt;'';
聽聽聽聽聽 [Bindable] private var xlc:XMLListCollection;
聽聽聽聽聽
聽聽聽聽聽 private function init():void{
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 xlc = new XMLListCollection(XMLList(strXML)..item);
聽聽聽聽聽 }
聽聽聽 ]]%26gt;
聽 %26lt;/mx:Script%26gt;
聽 %26lt;mx:DataGrid dataProvider=''{xlc}''%26gt;
聽聽聽 %26lt;mx:columns%26gt;
聽聽聽聽聽 %26lt;mx:DataGridColumn dataField=''fname''/%26gt;
聽聽聽聽聽 %26lt;mx:DataGridColumn dataField=''lname''/%26gt;
聽聽聽 %26lt;/mx:columns%26gt;
聽 %26lt;/mx:DataGrid%26gt;
%26lt;/mx:Application%26gt;