Asfunction calling xml

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Hi Everyone,

I am a designer and am really trying to learn XML calls into flash, and actionscript in general. I have spent a while trying to figure this out and some of your expertise would be greatly appreciated!

If I can even get pointed in the right direction it would really help!

The goal is to modify an XML search that I found in a tutorial on Kirupa, I need to replace the section that opens a browser with an asfunction:myBook.flipGotoPage parameter…

Here is the link to the Kirupa XML example I’m working with:
[ http://www.kirupa.com/web/xml/examples/searchbestof.htm ]

Below is the part of the code that pops a new browser window from the url field of the XML document:

DisplayNodes = function(nodes, field_txt){
    field_txt.htmlText = "";
    var entry;
    var separator = "<br>_______________________<br><br>";
    for (var i=0; i<nodes.length; i++){
        entry = "";
        entry += "<b>"+ nodes*.childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue +"</b>";
        entry += " by: "+ nodes*.childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
        entry += "<br>"+ nodes*.childNodes[2].firstChild.nodeValue;
        if (nodes*.attributes.url.length){
            entry += "<br><a href='" + nodes*.attributes.url;
            entry += "'><font color='#0000FF'>Read more...</font></a>";

My goal is to make the search result use asfunction and work just like the below code did in my first attempt at creating a search [my first non xml search attempt]

var keyword = new Array();
_root.search.onRelease = function(){
    _root.linkText = "";
    
    for(j = 0; j < textArr.length; j++){
        _level0["count"+j] = 0;
        var p:Number = j+1;
        keyword = textArr[j].split(" ");
        for(i = 0; i < keyword.length; i++){
            if(keyword*.charAt(keyword*.length-1) == ","){
                l = keyword*.lastIndexOf(",")-1;
                wordmatch = keyword*.substring(0,(l+1));
            }else if(keyword*.charAt(keyword*.length-1) == "."){
                l = keyword*.lastIndexOf(".")-1;
                wordmatch = keyword*.substring(0,(l+1));
            }else if(keyword*.charAt(keyword*.length-1) == "?"){
                l = keyword*.lastIndexOf("?")-1;
                wordmatch = keyword*.substring(0,(l+1));
            }else{
                wordmatch = keyword*;
                }
            if(_root.searchTxt.toLowerCase() == wordmatch.toLowerCase()){
                _level0["count"+j]+=1;
            if(_level0["count"+j] <= 1){
                _root.linkText += ("<a href=\"asfunction:myBook.flipGotoPage,"+p+"\">page "+p+" contains the word <font color=\"#FF0000\"><B><I>"+wordmatch+"</I></B></font></a><br />");
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Specifically, this is the section that I am trying make work in the XML based search…

_root.linkText += ("<a href=\"asfunction:myBook.flipGotoPage,"+p+"\">page "+p+" contains the word <font color=\"#FF0000\"><B><I>"+wordmatch+"</I></B></font></a><br />");

I realize that they are TOTALLY different ways of performing the search… and that I may be in way over my head, however I found this site was really designer friendly so I thought this post might help me get in the right direction.

Can anyone help with this?
Cheers,
J