I've seen many examples of the use of the xml object in flash..and most of the processing seems to be done in the onLoad function. What i am trying to do is load an xml file, then dump the info into high level variables. Is there an easy way to do this? One thing i noticed is after i load an xml file into an xml object, i cannot do anything with the object...is the only spot to grab the info in the onLoad function? And i also cannot modify any root vars in this function...Scope issues? Also, are there any performance or other issues involved in using xml objects, as opposed to the loadvars object?