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Basic MXML syntax 39
The following example shows how you specify an anonymous object as the value of the
dataProvider
property:
<mynamespace:MyComponent>
<mynamespace:dataProvider>
<mx:Array>
<mx:Object label="One" data="1" />
<mx:Object label="Two" data="2" />
</mx:Array>
</mynamespace:dataProvider>
</mynamespace:MyComponent>
Properties that contain XML data
If a component contains a property that takes XML data, the value of the property is an XML
fragment to which you can apply a namespace. In the following example, the
value
property of
the MyComponent object is XML data:
<mynamespace:MyComponent>
<mynamespace:value xmlns:a="http://www.example.com/myschema">
<mx:XML>
<a:purchaseorder>
<a:billingaddress>
...
</a:billingaddress>
...
</a:purchaseorder>
</mx:XML>
</mynamespace:value>
</mynamespace:MyComponent>
Style properties
A style property of an MXML tag differs from other properties because it corresponds to an
ActionScript style property that you set in ActionScript using the
setStyle(
stylename
,
value
)
method rather than
object.property=value
notation. The
text
and
fontFamily
properties in the following example:
<mx:TextArea id="myText" text="hello world" fontFamily="Tahoma" />
are equivalent to the following ActionScript code:
// text property :
myText.text= "hello world";
// font style property:
myText.setStyle("fontFamily", "Tahoma");