# Dynamically Positioning Movie clips- XML?

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 19, 2008, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamically-positioning-movie-clips-xml/277967 "2008-12-19T12:53:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![bboybeatle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3e96dc/32.png) [@bboybeatle](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bboybeatle)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamically-positioning-movie-clips-xml/277967/1 "2008-12-19T12:53:37Z")

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Hi  
I was just wondering if this is possible, and if anyone knows how it could be done

What i intend to do is have a number of movie clips which load a photo from XML.  
As well as the photo i want something in the XML code that tells the movie clip where to place itself on the scene. For example it could contain a number from 1-8 and the scene will be split into eight sections across the X axis. So if it has the number 3 it will go in the 3rd section across anywhere on the Y axis…

![](http://http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/2618/explanationqk0.jpg)

I hope someone can help.  
I will be greatly appreciative  
thanks in advance  
Pete