Specifications

280 Data Integration: Using XML for a Timesheet (Flash Professional Only)
7. Select the Date schema field. Its type is set to String. This is because the
Flash authoring tool cannot determine that it is a date type based on its
value. You need to give Flash some additional information to encode
this value correctly.
NOTE
The XMLConnector component stores information internally as strings.
When a request is made for the data through a DataBinding component,
you can define how the string data is converted into the correct
ActionScript types. This is accomplished by selecting an item within the
Schema Tree pane and modifying its settings.