Easiest way to external population of arrays?

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I have this code inside of my fla. What I want to try to do is to have an external file to populate this. The mm_array and all of the sm#_arrays are used in the rest of the code to build the navigation. Whats the best solution? XML?


// MAINMENU
var mm_array:Array = ["MAIN 1", "MAIN 2", "MAIN 3", "MAIN 4"];

// SUBMENU
// Sub 1
var sm1_array:Array = ["Text 1", "Text 2"];
// Sub 2
var sm2_array:Array = ["Text 1", "Text 2"];
// Sub 3
var sm3_array:Array = ["Text 1", "Text 2"];
// Sub 4
var sm4_array:Array = ["Text 1", "Text 2"];

var submenu_array:Array = [];