Switch not working with e4x

I was working on a xml parser today and encountered an issue with AS3 e4x attribute access and the switch structure. When I used item.@name within switch() there were no traces…

switch(item.@name)
{
	case "share" :
		trace(item.@name);
	break;
	case "requestBrochure" :
		trace(item.@name);
	break;
	case "gallery" :
		trace(item.@name);
	break;
}

…but when I assigned item.@name to a string it worked ;) 

var n:String = item.@name;
switch(n)
{
	case "share" :
		trace(item.@name);
	break;
	case "requestBrochure" :
		trace(item.@name);
	break;
	case "gallery" :
		trace(item.@name);
	break;
}

item.@name is of type Object. It needs to be cast to a string.
String(item.@name) would do as well.

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