# Flash variables call XML

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-variables-call-xml/144157>\
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**Created:** [April 12, 2005, 7:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-variables-call-xml/144157 "2005-04-12T07:32:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jellybean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@Jellybean](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jellybean)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 7:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-variables-call-xml/144157/1 "2005-04-12T07:32:30Z")

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Hey everyone…

First off all, thank you so much. All your tutorials, articles and forum questions have helped me so much in developing a website that is now almost finished…

Only my most important part isn’t working, my text content!!!  
I have this problem:  
I want my Flash menu buttons to contain a certain variable/string like for example: content\_xml.firstChild.firstChild.  
Then I want to goto a frame where my XML file will load and insert the string here for retrieving data from XML, but I just can’t seem to get it to work…  
When I set a variable IN the XML load function it works fine, but when I put it out it doesn’t work anymore. And it has to be a global variable which loads on the first frame of the main movie.

Hope you guys and gals can help me… I’m really stuck here.

Jellybean