# CSS+XML - Shouldn't this work?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-xml-shouldnt-this-work/274927>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 6, 2008, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-xml-shouldnt-this-work/274927 "2008-11-06T17:12:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![bennymartensson](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/bennymartensson/32/1317_2.png) [@bennymartensson](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bennymartensson)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-xml-shouldnt-this-work/274927/1 "2008-11-06T17:12:22Z")

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```auto

var xml:XML;
var xmlList:XMLList;
var myStyle:StyleSheet;
var myTextLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();

var cssLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
cssLoader.load(new URLRequest("styles.css"));
cssLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onCSSLoad);

function onCSSLoad(event:Event):void
{    
    myTextLoader.load (new URLRequest("myTextFile.xml"));
	myTextLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadText);
	
	myStyle = new StyleSheet();
    myStyle.parseCSS(event.target.data);
	textField_txt.styleSheet = myStyle;
}

function loadText(event:Event):void
{
	xml = XML(event.target.data);
	xmlList = xml.children();
	textField_txt.text = xmlList[0];
}

```