Working With XML
Sometimes you need to pass a flash file information. Perhaps you're making a flash-based photo gallery or an mp3 player. Maybe you want to use flash to parse server information. Whatever you need to do, it may make the most sense to use XML to pass your data to flash. Using XML is good because it's easy to parse as flash has built-in XML tools. In order to use an XML file, you need flash to do 2 things: read it and parse it. Here's an example of the code you'd need to read in an XML file (called info.xml) and parse it.

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Flash FAQ - XML packets and XPAth
The Flash-XML FAQ aims to provide a definitive source for common questions about Flash and its interaction with XML (and XML datasources).

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Flash XML processing
Flash XML processing is not a complicated task at all. In this article I will show you how to load and process XML files via actionscript.

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A Simple XML-Based Searchable Database
This tutorial is about creating a simple to a limited extent searchable database with XML and integrating it into Flash. "XML is the phuture of the web", somebody once wrote to me and that is what I am learning wherever something is written about XML. There are a number of ways to parse XML such as XSL or javascript.

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Flash and XML
Learn how to create a flash phonebook using the power of xml with flash.

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Retrieve Data From XML File
Tutorial on how to load external source, XML, into your Flash movie. XML is widely used markup language that enable sharing of structured data across platforms.

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Simple Flash XML Photogallery
This tutorial you will have created a bare-bones flash photo gallery which will look something like this. The thumbnails, images and titles are loaded and setup dynamically with data provided by a xml file.

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Creating an XML Slideshow in Flash
All the contents of our slideshow will be controlled through an XML file so that you can updated your images and their description without going back to your FLA, the XML file will also control the speed of the slideshow.

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XML Menu
This Flash tutorial will show you how to create buttons using xml for the text.

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Loading XML data in Flash using ActionScript
XML can be used to load external data in Flash to provide an easy method for structuring content so that it is easy to understand, process, and update.

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XML-Based Searchable Database (part 3): list matches, preloader and more...
This tutorial is part 3 of the tutorial series about creating a simple database with XML and integrating it into Flash. This part shows you how to do advanced search using more complex XML files.

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import Data from XML in a desired font Style.
This can be useful for importing the XML data to flash in a desired font style, you can use this code directly and you can change the labels in XML and keep your labels and its ready to use.

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Using Flash with Zinc v2.5 to Convert and Save a CSV file to an XML file
This tutorial will enable you to load a CSV of any size and convert it into XML data and then save that XML data to disk.

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Create an intelligent XML image Gallery and Slideshow
In this article you will learn how to build an image gallery that will load images from a web server. I decide to call it Intelligent because you don't need to configure any XML or flash file. Just put the Flash movie and the images on a server and they will be loaded automatically. Nice ah?

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Creating an Advance Flash Image Gallery
This tutorial will teach you how to create an advanced scrolling gallery using XML. All of our assets will be dynamically loaded and the gallery could be fully customized using the XML file.

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Movable XML Image Gallery
This tutorial will teach you how to create moveable XML Image Gallery. This is improvement of our existed XML Gallery. The pictures are loaded from external sources, XML.

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Horizontal 3D Carousel in Actionscript 3
The procedure to get this done is by Creating an XML file with the image path and the link data in it. Then calling this xml data into flash. Placing the images in a 3D circle Providing the circular movement for the same Functions for 'on click' and 'on rollover'

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Create a Comment Form with Flash, PHP, XML and MySQL
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to use Flash, PHP and MySQL together. We'll build a simple comment form that takes entries and stores them in a database. We'll use PHP to retrieve the entries and format the comments into XML form.

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Working with XML
Sometimes you need to pass a flash file information. Perhaps you're making a flash-based photo gallery or an mp3 player. Maybe you want to use flash to parse server information.

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Loading XML data using ActionScript 3.0
ActionScript 3.0 provides new powerful methods for dealing with XML data that make it possible to easily filter and search the content of a XML file.

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Creating a Dynamic Playlist for Progressive Flash Video
There's been a strong outcry for an article demonstrating an XML-driven playlist that does not require Macromedia Flash Communication Server. You wanted the flexibility to update your progressive Flash video (FLV) playlists without editing your Macromedia Flash source files.

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OOP RSS via ActionScript 2.0
RSS keeps growing in popularity, and so we find ourselves playing with RSS feeds in new and interesting ways... or perhaps it's the other way around?!?! Adobe (Formerly Macromedia) Flash is moving more and more towards XML and OOP paradigms. So I've taken it upon myself to write some classes for parsing through Flash's XML to get RSS feeds. O, and the zip file has the necessary files, the CSS files etc.

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Creating an AS3 XML Video Player in Flash
This tutorial will teach you how to create a YouTube like Flash video player.

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Picture or object gallery
Load pictures or other objects with XML into flash.

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Using XML for a Timesheet
This tutorial uses a public web service and therefore requires that you have an Internet connection. In addition, the tutorial won't work in a browser because of sandbox restrictions, but will work in the Flash authoring environment or the stand-alone Flash Player.

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A Simple XML-Based Searchable Database (part 2): URLs and Frame numbers
This tutorial is about adding URLs to buttons or frame numbers to ´gotoAndPlay´ or other actions using xml. The tutorial is a continuation of the previously published tutorial ´A Simple XML-Based Searchable Database´. The previous tutorial was about creating a database using XML. I will also discuss some parts of the script again and this time in more detail. In particular I want to point to one mistake in the previous tutorial. This tutorial requires FlashMX.

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Basic Flash MX/MySQL chat
In this tutorial we will learn how to build a simple chat using Flash MX, PHP and MySQL. No xml socket connection needed, only a good web connection :)

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Make a hangman game in Flash from start to finish!
Learn to load XML and text data into Flash by making a hangman game. You'll learn a lot!

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XML Table Constructor Kit
Learn how to dynamically generate a multi-column table using XML template file.

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AS3 XML Slideshow Tutorial
Learn how to create cool slideshow using ActionScript 3.0 and XML.

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Transferring data across domains using crossdomain.xml
In many occasions you might want a SWF to be able to retrieve data from another domain, by loading variables from a text file for example, or you might want to send data from a Flash email form to a PHP script that is sitting on another domain.With Flash player 6 a security sandbox implemented a restriction : a movie sitting on one domain would be prevented from loading data from another domain. In Flash Player 6, sub domains of the same parent domain could access each other's data this is not the case anymore starting with Flash player 7, domains must be identical for data to be read.

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Halo 2 XML Application
This guide will teach you how to create a dynamic application to dispaly Halo 2 XML feeds from Bungie.net

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Creating 'Track-Points' in Adobe After Effects and using them in a Flash Animation
How to create 'Track-Points' in Adobe After Effects, how to convert them to XML and how to connect to them in flash to make an animation that responds to your moving part in the flv.

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Using an XML file to load Chart components
You can use any file with a .xml extension as the data source for the chart.

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XML Random Image Slideshow
A tutorial that shows you how to create a random images slideshow. The images are loaded from XML external source.

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Creating an XML Scrollbar Gallery in Flash
Create a smart interactive gallery that can be controlled using a scrollbar.

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Combo Box component in AS3 part 2
In this Flash tutorial you will learn how to use XML to load text and images by selecting the labels in the Combo box.

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Creating An XML Music Player Using AS3
This tutorial will teach you how to create an interactive music player powered by XML using AS3.

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Bringing SOAP to Flash 5
Flash 5 has support for XML communications over HTTP. However, sadly enough, there is no support for setting HTTP headers. The 'SOAPAction' HTTP header is however essential if you want to communicate with SOAP-compliant webservices. And what is very popular these days ? Yes, SOAP-based webservices... And why are they popular ? Because they allow you to access business logic functionalities (for example doing a query to retrieve flight availability or the wheather in your city or live stock quotes or ...) over the Internet in a structured form (in other words without having to do screen- or HTML- scraping).

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Build a XML Driven Accordion Image Gallery
The following Flex tutorial will show you how to build an accordion image gallery populated using XML datas.

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