Well this is just a little, everyday task: I'm currently working on the Sto International Website and needed to modify an XML file so that each of its nodes has a unique ID assigned. The fastest way to achieve this is a very simple XSL transformation like the one below: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"     version="1.0">     <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />     <!--         This stylesheet just assigns a unique ID         to each node in the XML ...

The first and the second part of this tutorial covered the topics reading data from a relational DB and transforming the data into a suitable (XML) format so that Flex can use this data to establish a DataProvider setting up a (editable) DataGrid with the DataProvider and checking user input for consistency So now we’re ready to send the updated data back to our server: whenever the user changes the row ...

The previous part of this tutorial was all about reading data from a mysql database and reformatting this data so that we can easily load it into a DataGrid. This second part is about validating input data from the user. As some columns of our DataGrid are editable, we have to check whether the user's input is acceptable at all before sending the new data back to ...

As the DataGrid class in Flex is the perfect tool for managing table data, we also need an efficient and reliable way to store these data. The example here uses an HTTPService to retrieve the data from a remote webserver and to send update packages back to it. This Tutorial uses an example user management tool for a community site. Users can be (de-)activated, their credits and status within ...