How do I get hyphens in my attribute names in Flex?

Question

Flex has an issue with hyphens in xml. I need to generate an xml object with hyphens in the attribute for a Google Checkout implementation.

I can get away with:

var xml:XML = <item-description/>;

and

var xml:XML = <item-description the-name="foo"/>;

but what I need to do is set the value of an attribute like this:

var timestamp:String = methodToGetMyTimestampString();

var xml:XML = <item-desc/>;
xml@start-date = timestamp;

but I can't do that. Since flex doesn't like the hyphens, I don't know how to get or set attributes with hyphens in the name.

Christophe Herreman · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-23T20:38:17.937

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Have you tried this:

xml.attribute("start-date") = timestamp;

or

xml.@["start-date"] = timestamp;

edited Mar 23 '10 at 20:38

answered Mar 23 '10 at 20:19

It won't allow you to make assignments that way. – JLeonard Mar 23 '10 at 20:24
Indeed, posted another attempt. – Christophe Herreman Mar 23 '10 at 20:39
Thanks Christophe, that second suggestion was it. – JLeonard Mar 24 '10 at 00:42

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