# Quick XML Question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-xml-question/213046>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 16, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-xml-question/213046 "2007-01-16T15:53:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![DataVZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@DataVZ](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DataVZ)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-xml-question/213046/1 "2007-01-16T15:53:58Z")

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I have an XML file that I’m using to populate a dataGrid and the numbers are not appearing correctly. Many of them need to have zeros in the front as placeholders.

code reads: EstForgnNBR=“0025”  
appears as: 21  
should be: 0025

When I tested my movie, I noticed that the zeros were gone and even some of the numbers had changed. What am I doing wrong? I’m assuming there’s some syntax that I have to use to get the zeros to appear correctly because when I inserted a “1” in front of the #, it appeared the same as it did in the code (10025).