# Cant figure out how to populate a tree comp

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-figure-out-how-to-populate-a-tree-comp/239704>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 25, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-figure-out-how-to-populate-a-tree-comp/239704 "2007-09-25T04:07:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-figure-out-how-to-populate-a-tree-comp/239704/1 "2007-09-25T04:07:08Z")

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I am working with the tree component and am going to be using external XML to populate it. I made a small example xml file.

```php

<node label="root1" value="1">
    <node label="sub1">
        <node label="item1" />
        <node label="item2" />
        <node label="item3" />
        <node label="item4" />
        <node label="item5" />
    </node>
    <node label="sub2">
        <node label="item1" />
        <node label="item2" />
        <node label="item3" />
        <node label="item4" />
        <node label="item5" />
    </node>
    <node label="root1Item1"/>
    <node label="root1Item2" />
</node>
<node label="root2">
    <node label="sub1">
        <node label="item1" />
        <node label="item2" />
        <node label="item3" />
    </node>
    <node label="root2Item1" />
    <node label="root2Item2" />
</node>
<node label="root3">
    <node label="sub1" />
        <node label="subsub1" />
            <node label="item1" />
            <node label="item2" />
            <node label="item3" />
        </node>
        <node label="subsub2" />
            <node label="item1" />
            <node label="item2" />
            <node label="item3" />
        </node>
        <node label="root3Item1" />
        <node label="root3Item2" />
    </node>
</node>

```

Basically I set it up with 3 main folders.  
root1 contains 2 subfolders and 2 items  
root2 contains 1 subfolder and 2 items  
root3 contains 1 subsubfolder, 1 subfolder and 2 items.

I am not entirely sure thats even the right way to lay this out. Ive tried looking at the help docs but I cant figure out how to populate the tree with that. If someone could help me get started I would really appreciate it.