# Flash and XML Required

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-and-xml-required/49132>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 20, 2004, 6:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-and-xml-required/49132 "2004-04-20T06:03:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![thejester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@thejester](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/thejester)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2004, 6:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-and-xml-required/49132/1 "2004-04-20T06:03:50Z")

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Hi there…

I’ve been using Flash for a while now but have just started using Flash Combined with XML.

I’m trying to make a poll system in flash which grabs data from a PHP generated xml file.

This is the contents of the xml file at the moment.

\<?xml version=“1.0” ?\>  
- \<poll\>  
\<pollid id=“ **1** ” /\>

```
&lt;question text=" **Do you surf or skate or both?**" /&gt; 

&lt;answer value=" **Surf**" answerid=" **1**" /&gt; 

&lt;answer value=" **Skate**" answerid=" **2**" /&gt; 

&lt;answer value=" **Both**" answerid=" **3**" /&gt; 

```

\</poll\>

Now I’ve managed to load all of the data into flash using the following action script:  
myXML = new XML();  
myXML.ignoreWhite = true  
myXML.onLoad = myOnLoad;  
myXML.load(“poll.xml”);  
function myOnLoad(success) {  
if(success) {  
trace(“XML loaded succesfully”);  
processXML();  
} else {  
trace(“Error - Could not load XML file”);  
}  
}  
function processXML() {  
// Decalare variables  
pollId = myXML.firstChild.firstChild.attributes.id;  
pollIdName = myXML.firstChild.firstChild.nodeName;  
question = myXML.firstChild.firstChild.nextSibling.attributes.text;  
questionId = myXML.firstChild.firstChild.nextSibling.nodeName

```
     // Load variable valuables in
     trace("Poll ID Node Name: "+pollIdName);
     trace("Poll ID: "+pollId);
     trace("Question ID Node Name: "+questionId);
     trace("Question: "+question);
     
     //Load in Answers and answer ID's
     xmlLoop = myXML.firstChild.firstChild.nextSibling.nextSibling;
     while(xmlLoop.nodeName eq "answer") {
         trace("Answer No."+xmlLoop.attributes.answerid+" "+ xmlLoop.attributes.value + ". Answer ID = " + xmlLoop.attributes.answerid);
         xmlLoop = xmlLoop.nextSibling;
     }
 }

```

This produces the following output in flash:-  
XML loaded succesfully  
Poll ID Node Name: pollid  
Poll ID: 1  
Question ID Node Name: question  
Question: Do you surf or skate or both?  
Answer No.1 Surf. Answer ID = 1  
Answer No.2 Skate. Answer ID = 2  
Answer No.3 Both. Answer ID = 3

What I would like to do is load the answers into their own variable to display them in flash. I could do it if there was only ever going to be 3 questions to each answer but the number of questions could be 3 or more.

Is there a way to create a variable for each answer regardless of how many answers are in each question. I was thinking an array but I’m not sure of how to actually code it properly

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The Jester