# Bind xmlconnector to a normal variable?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bind-xmlconnector-to-a-normal-variable/75979>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 13, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bind-xmlconnector-to-a-normal-variable/75979 "2005-01-13T19:30:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![xMetal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xMetal](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/xMetal)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bind-xmlconnector-to-a-normal-variable/75979/1 "2005-01-13T19:30:55Z")

</div>

I just started experimenting with the data binding capability in 2004 Pro, and have been working with the xml connector.

I got that pretty much figured out. I load up an xml and can display a node value in an textarea component. No real problem there.

But, what I want to do and can’t really figure out, is how to bind that same node to a regular ol’ flash variable. I found this note in one of macromedia’s demos, but there is no further explanation:

> For each binding in the list, you need to set a UI component, **a variable reference** , or a literal value to pass to or from the web service.

Where can I do this? It would be great to just set the “bound to” target to something like \_root.myVar

Any thoughts?