Flash Feeding from an XML File

[WilliamMute007]

Hi all,

Please help as I am quite a novice in flash but I need to perform a task with it Basically I have a set of images list in an xml file that are pulled to created an swf file as a top banner in the website. Problem: I have that lot working. The only thing now is that, for every section of the website, I want the swf file to use different sets of images defined in the one xml file. i.e

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Homepage>
	<image title="" url="Australia_2 2007.jpg" />
	<image title="" url="1.jpg" />
	<image title="" url="2.jpg" />
</homepage>

<AboutUs>
	<image title="" url="Australia_2 2007.jpg" />
	<image title="" url="1.jpg" />
	<image title="" url="2.jpg" />
</AboutUs>

So I now want this one xml file to be global so depending on what page a user is in, the flash file would use the appropriate XML Tag? (homepage, AboutUs etc)

Thank you for you help in advance.

 

[oldnewbie]

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/xmldataflash.htm

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[WilliamMute007]

Thanks for that link oldnewbie. I have done that tutorial before. Where my problem lies is having to display relate a section of my xml to a section of my page thats the problem.

thanks for your contribution.

 

[oldnewbie]

Can you post a link to your files?

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[WilliamMute007]

First Page

http://67.192.11.219/victoria_2.asp

Second page

http://67.192.11.219/new_south_wales.asp

basically I want the top images for each one of the pages to be different ( in relative to either New South Wales or Victoria). There are three sets of images for each of the pages.



Thanks once more.

 

[Leozack]

Having more than 1 root node might complicate things. Stick your 'section' nodes under a main root node and then say
something like

rootNode = myxml.firstChild;
pageNode = rootNode.firstChild;
var thisPage = "aboutus";
do {
	if (pageNode.nodeName == thisPage) {
	// The current node of images matches the section you want, do stuff here
	}
} while (pageNode = pageNode.nextSibling);

I may be wrong I'm only starting this stuff myself

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[WilliamMute007]

Leozack thank you for that post, I think I have duplicated this post... but I want to use variables, how would I do this? is it possible to break it down a bit so I can understand it? I am not that advance, actually my realm is php and mysql I dont really touch flash and xml and the lot so am quiet a novice. i.e where does the code you sent above fit into the puzzle? (sorry if I ask daft question I am just trying to get my head around it.)

Thanks a million