[f8] AS2 & XML problem

programming flash
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Hey, I’m trying to get my news to pull through an xml file into a textbox. But for some reason its not loading. This script was originally used for an external page, which it then loaded into another .swf. But not I want to just use it by itself.

Any thoughts?

var scrollbar;


// set stylesheet to the text box
textbox.styleSheet = _root.stylesheet;
// get xml file name
var xmlFile = _root.xml_news;
if (xmlFile == undefined) { xmlFile = "news.xml"; }


// create array to hold news data
var a_news = new Array();
var s_news = "";


// create an xml object
var xmlNews = new XML();
xmlNews.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlNews.load();
xmlNews.onLoad = function (success) {
        if (success) { loadData(xmlNews.firstChild); 
    } else {  
        _root.alert("Failed to load XML file");
    } 
}


function loadData (xml) {
//    trace(xml_object);
    // loop thru the tourdates in the xml
    
    var xml_post = xml.firstChild; //trace(xml);
    
    var newsString = '';
    
    //trace(xml_object.childNodes.length);
    // load data into array of xml data
    for (var x = 0; x < xml.childNodes.length - 1; x++) {
        
        
        date = xml_post.attributes.date;//childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
        heading = xml_post.attributes.title;//childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
        body = xml_post.firstChild.nodeValue;

        a_news[x] = {Date: date, Heading: heading, Body: body};
        
        // construct textbox string
        newsString = newsString + '<p class="news_heading">' + heading.toUpperCase() + '</p>';
        newsString = newsString + '<p class="news_date">' + date + '</p><br>';
        newsString = newsString + '<p class="news_body">' + body + '</p><br>';
        
        //trace( date + ' | ' + place + ' | ' + info + '
');
        
        //trace (xml_show);
        xml_post = xml_post.nextSibling;
    }
    
//    this.scrollbar = this.attachMovie("scrollbar", "scrollbar", this.getNextHighestDepth());
//    create and assign the scrollbar
//    scrollbar._x = 460;
//    scrollbar._y = 12;

trace(scrollbar.setTarget);

    scrollbar.setTarget(textbox);
    
    textbox.html = true;
    textbox.htmlText = newsString;
}