Apply CSS style to XML Node in Flash

I just recently discovered Kirupu forums and Kirupa’s really awesome tutorials. I wanted to add a news ticker to my site and I modified this tutorial: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/newsticker.htm for my needs.

I wanted to make one more modification and that is to be able to modify the color of each node using a CSS style. I know how to apply a CSS style to a regular XML file but I like the way Kirupa cycles through the nodes using the loop so I would like to keep most of that intact.

Does anyone have any suggestions about how to go about this? Thanks