# Attributes VS. Nested

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attributes-vs-nested/172008>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 9, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attributes-vs-nested/172008 "2005-12-09T22:05:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Multi\_Task](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Multi\_Task](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Multi_Task)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attributes-vs-nested/172008/1 "2005-12-09T22:05:05Z")

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Flashlevel recreation using resizable image loader,  
Changed the images to load from XML using Attributes instead of Nested Elements. Now images wont load. What is up? help.

**Heres Old code for Thumbnail Nav using Nested:**  
images = new Array();  
xml\_file = “images.xml”;  
xmlload = new XML();  
xmlload.ignoreWhite = true;  
xmlload.onLoad = function(ok) {  
if (ok) {  
count = this.firstChild.childNodes.length;  
for (var i = 0; i\<count; i++) {  
curNode = this.firstChild.childNodes\*;  
images\* = {path:curNode.childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue,link:curNode.childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue,caption:curNode.childNodes[2].firstChild.nodeValue};  
}  
boot();  
} else {  
trace(“Could not load “+xml\_file+”.”);  
}  
};  
xmlload.load(xml\_file);

spacing = 5;  
boot = function () {  
for (var i = 0; i\<images.length; i++) {  
mc = container.attachMovie(“thumbMC”, “thumb”+i, i);  
mc.\_y = i\*(65+spacing);  
mc.path = images\*.path;  
mc.link = images\*.link;  
mc.over.captionMC.caption.text = images\*.caption;

**Heres New code using Attributes:**  
var x:XML = new XML();  
x.ignoreWhite = true;  
var urls:Array = new Array();  
x.onLoad = function() {  
var gallery:Array = this.firstChild.childNodes;  
for (i=0;i\<gallery.length;i++) {  
urls.push(gallery.childNodes\*.attributes.url);  
}  
}  
x.load(“gallery.xml”);  
spacing = 5;  
boot = function () {  
for (var i=0;i\<gallery.length;i++) {  
mc = container.attachMovie(“thumbMC”, “thumb”+i, i);  
mc.\_x = i\*(60+spacing);  
mc.url = images\*.url;  
}  
setRollOver();  
};

But thumbnails wont load now. Can any one help. XML is attached as well. please help.

\<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8”?\>  
\<portfolio info =“Photos”\>  
\<image title=“Get yo colors out” source=“images/image01.jpg” url=“images/image01.jpg”/\>  
\<image title=“Xed in Miami” source=“images/image02.jpg” url=“images/image02.jpg”/\>  
\<image title=“Flowin” source=“images/image03.jpg” url=“images/image03.jpg”/\>  
\<image title=“Nasty” source=“images/image04.jpg” url=“images/image04.jpg”/\>  
\<image title=“TIKI” source=“images/image05.jpg” url=“images/image05.jpg”/\>  
\<image title=“Pimpin” source=“images/image05.jpg” url=“images/image06.jpg”/\>  
\</portfolio\>