Filling instances with XML Data - XML Loading

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Hello.

I’ve gone through tis excellent set of tutorials:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flashcs3/using_xml_as3_pg1.htm

and wanted to say thanks for sharing that it’s really helping me out.

Now to my problem. I have a MovieClip which has a couple of text boxes embedded inside it. I’m trying to load data from an XML file and populate the text fields with this data. That’s fine, all good. What I also need to do is create an instance of that MovieClip for each instance of a certain tag in the XML, and then load that instance of the MovieClip with the relevant information.

So, for this XML file (reduced to show only 2 CD entries):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<CATALOG>
	<CD>
		<TITLE>Empire Burlesque</TITLE>
		<ARTIST>Bob Dylan</ARTIST>
		<COUNTRY>USA</COUNTRY>
		<COMPANY>Columbia</COMPANY>
		<PRICE>10.90</PRICE>
		<YEAR>1985</YEAR>
	</CD>
	<CD>
		<TITLE>Pavarotti Gala Concert</TITLE>
		<ARTIST>Luciano Pavarotti</ARTIST>
		<COUNTRY>UK</COUNTRY>
		<COMPANY>DECCA</COMPANY>
		<PRICE>9.90</PRICE>
		<YEAR>1991</YEAR>
	</CD>
</CATALOG>

I’m using the following code:

package  {
	
	import flash.display.MovieClip;
	import flash.net.URLLoader;
	import flash.net.URLRequest;
	import flash.events.*;
	import flash.errors.*;
	import flash.events.Event;
	
	public class e4x extends MovieClip {
		private var mainXML:XML;
		private var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
		
		public function e4x() {
			// constructor code
			loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);
			loader.load(new URLRequest("e4x.xml"));
		}
		
		private function onComplete(e:Event) {
			try {
				mainXML = new XML(loader.data);
			} catch(e:Error) {
				trace("xml error!" + e.message);
				return;
			}
			
			trace("xml loaded, start parsing :-)");
			//trace(mainXML);
			parseBooks(mainXML);
			makeCircs(mainXML);
		}
		
		private function parseBooks(xmlIn:XML):void {
			trace("XML Output");
			trace("----------  ---------");
			trace(xmlIn.CD);
		}
		
		private function makeCircs(xmlIn:XML):void {
			
			var titleList:XMLList = xmlIn.CD;
			
			for each (var i:XML in titleList) {
				
				var circ:myCirc = new myCirc();
				stage.addChild(circ);
				
				circ.texter.text = xmlIn.CD.ARTIST;
				circ.texte.text = xmlIn.CD.COUNTRY;
				
				circ.x = Math.random() * stage.width;
				circ.y = Math.random() * stage.height;
			}
		}
		
	}
	
}

So a new instance of myCirc needs to happen on each <CD> from the XML, and it’s text fields need to contain the information from the XML.

It’s working, but I get instances which contain all the text from all the <CD> sections of the XML, each one has all the titles, countries etc.

Any help here would be wonderful, I’ve been away form code for a long time and whilst I’m really enjoying fiddling my way through, I’m now stumped :slight_smile: