dynamic XMLList

I'm trying to dynamically create the sample below:

Code:

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    <mx:XMLList id="employees">
        <employee>
            <name>Christina Coenraets</name>
            <phone>555-219-2270</phone>
            <email>[email protected]</email>
            <active>true</active>
        </employee>
        <employee>
            <name>Joanne Wall</name>
            <phone>555-219-2012</phone>
            <email>[email protected]</email>
            <active>true</active>
        </employee>
    </mx:XMLList>

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I have this tag in my mxml:
<mx:XMLList id="results">

</mx:XMLList>

For some reason, Flex will not allow you to use .appendChild() unless there is already one tag. That means I'd have to do this:
<mx:XMLList id="results">
<resultList>
</resultList>
</mx:XMLList>

to get it to work which means I'd end up with something like this:

Code:

---

    <mx:XMLList id="employees">
      <resultList>//I dont want one big wrapping tag
        <employee>
            <name>Christina Coenraets</name>
            <phone>555-219-2270</phone>
            <email>[email protected]</email>
            <active>true</active>
        </employee>
        <employee>
            <name>Joanne Wall</name>
            <phone>555-219-2012</phone>
            <email>[email protected]</email>
            <active>true</active>
        </employee>
  </resultList>
    </mx:XMLList>

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Atm, I'm taking a delimited string sent from PHP. I'm using .split() and a for loop to create a multidimensional array that I intend on populating the XMLList with. (ie. results.row[i] = myArray[i][0]; )

Am I way off on this?

Holy carp, I am way over complicating this. Kinda hating flex right now, if I didnt need the built in sorting ability of the datagrid, I'd have knocked this out in flash 8 in about 20 minutes.

Anyway, found this great article (thanks to gSOLO) for connecting with PHP.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/art...x2_php_03.html