# EventListener

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eventlistener/257723>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [April 16, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eventlistener/257723 "2008-04-16T17:07:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![petran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4491bb/32.png) [@petran](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/petran)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eventlistener/257723/1 "2008-04-16T17:07:05Z")

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Hello

I have the following simple action script file xmlLoader.as  
It has on XML variable and its constructor takes as an argument a string  
wich represents the path for the xml file so it defines a URLLoader loads the xml file and stores the data on the XML variable.  
I have realized that the eventlistener function onloadXml it does not executed.

Thank you

package {

import flash.events.\*;  
import flash.net.URLLoader;  
import flash.net.URLRequest;

public class xmlLoader {

private var xml:XML;

public function xmlLoader(xmlDocument:String):void {

var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();  
loader.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE, onloadXml);  
loader.load(new URLRequest(xmlDocument));  
}

public function onloadXml(e:Event):void {  
this.xml = new XML(e.target.data);

}

public function getXML():XML {  
return this.xml;  
}  
}  
}

import xmlLoader;  
import flash.events.TimerEvent;

var path:String = “images.xml”;  
var myLoader = new xmlLoader(path);  
var xml = myLoader.getXML();  
trace(xml); //// null ???