Hi
I have no idea where to post this, so pls forgive me if im in the wrong place, but I have an Assessment due tomorrow, I’m only 4 weeks knew to AS3 and Flash, and confused as, so pls forgive me if i also look silly asking this question.
The issue is loading data from an XML file and having it present in a Flash website. Its a ‘book review’ thing (i’ve altered the XML and AS3 for posting here so please bare that in mind), so the XML looks a little like this:
[COLOR=#800080]<books>
<book>
<bookName>The Monster</bookName>
<genres>
<genre>thriller</genre>
<genre>crime</genre>
<genre>comedy</genre>
</genres>
<description>about The Monster book.</description>
<image>mummies.jpg</image>
<reviews>
<review>
<date>16/07/2011</date>
<name>unnamed</name>
<info>
<rating>5</rating>
<why>blah blah</why>
<theGood>it was good…</theGood>
<the Bad>it was bad…</theBad>
</info>
</review>
</reviews>
</book>
<books>[/COLOR]
but each Book has multiple reviews, i’ve just shown you one. Anyway, i need to present this information in 3 dynamic text fields when a book is selected in my ComboBox… after a lot of trouble i got the basics of it. So in the Genre box the genres will display, and in the Description box the description will display, and in the Review box i can get all the information, but only with all the tags. I need it to display without any tags, it would be wonderful if i could figure out how i could put date, name etc in front of that information as well, but I cant even begin to figure that one out. For the life of me i cannot figure it out. below is the code I have so far:
[COLOR=#a9a9a9]//Load XML[/COLOR][COLOR=#800080]
var booksXML:XML = new XML();
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“gigGuide.xml”);
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,loaderOnComplete);
loader.load(request);
function loaderOnComplete(event:Event):void
{
booksXML = new XML(event.target.data);
var books:Array = new Array({label:“Select a Book”});
for each (var book:XML in booksXML.band)
books.push({label:book.bookName.toString(), data:book.description.toXMLString(),
infoLocal:book.genres.genre.toString(), infoDate:book.reviews.review.toString(),
infoImage:book.image});
bandCB.dataProvider = new DataProvider(bands);
}
[/COLOR][COLOR=#a9a9a9]//ComboBox changeable[/COLOR][COLOR=#800080]
bookCB.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, changeHandler2);
function changeHandler2(event:Event):void
{
genre_txt.text = ComboBox(event.target).selectedItem.infoLocal;
description_txt.text = ComboBox(event.target).selectedItem.data;
reviews_txt.text = ComboBox(event.target).selectedItem.infoDate;
empty_mc.tex = ComboBox(event.target).selectedItem.infoImage; [/COLOR][COLOR=#a9a9a9]//doesn’t work[/COLOR][COLOR=#800080]
}[/COLOR]
any help would be greatly appreciated, and the image doesn’t work, i’ve already faced facts that im not going to get that one to work 
Thank you in advance
