Using dataSet.items

[MatchBoxUK]

Same problem here - I've read a lot posts on many sites offering 'solutions'.
None of them work. If I've got a DataSet populated by an XMLConnector and I
want to extract the data from the dataset what's the big deal? Why does no-one
appear to know how to do this? Yes, it's easy when you manually create an
array but that's not a real world situation.

[MatchBoxUK]

I think I've solved the problem - it's all to do with timimg. The DataSet takes
a while to 'read in' the XML file so you need to give it enough time to do this
before you begin any operations on the DataSet. Your script should check that
the XML data has fully loaded into the DataSet before anything else is done.
Here's what I've come up with:

ReceiveXMLConnector.trigger();

listenerObject = new Object(); // Listens for events broadcast by the DataSet

listenerObject.afterLoaded = function (eventObj)
{
// Makes the first item the current item
DataSet.first();

// Traces through the properties
while(DataSet.hasNext())
{
// Access the data through the Dataset properties
trace(DataSet.YOUR PROPERTY GOES HERE);
DataSet.next();
}

}
DataSet.addEventListener("afterLoaded", listenerObject);

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[MatchBoxUK]

The Macromedia help pages/files/livedocs aren't very helpful to those new to
data integration. When you want a solution to a basic issue you don't want to
spend 3 hours working through a sample project and maybe even having to spend
months learning CF just to understand the sample!