# Dragging xml content from a dir outside of the flash dir?

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**Created:** [November 14, 2006, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dragging-xml-content-from-a-dir-outside-of-the-flash-dir/207061 "2006-11-14T14:29:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dragging-xml-content-from-a-dir-outside-of-the-flash-dir/207061/1 "2006-11-14T14:29:30Z")

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hi all!

i’m wondering if i can have flash 8 call files outside of its own directory?

e.g. a flash movie that gets data from xml files stored in a directory on the http server - a level up from the swf

root  
\data\data.xml  
\flash\flashMovie.swf

thanks all  
🙂