# Help: Expert to consult on XML+Flash (Masking) Menu

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**Created:** [April 18, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-expert-to-consult-on-xml-flash-masking-menu/144968 "2005-04-18T20:34:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![digitalmalaya](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/digitalmalaya/32/1256_2.png) [@digitalmalaya](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/digitalmalaya)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-expert-to-consult-on-xml-flash-masking-menu/144968/1 "2005-04-18T20:34:03Z")

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**[color=RoyalBlue]First and foremost, I’m a newbie and if i ever repeat the same topic or FAQ, I would like to apologize.[/color]**

Now, if I’m not mistaken, I had download this sourcefile from kirupa or somewhere which I forgot, but I had tried email the creator by the alias of  
[color=RoyalBlue] **dbk** @latosensu.com[/color]. It happens that the fella has not reply my messages.

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Anyway, I had design a flash website, where i use his (dbk) A.S. to work on an interactive **masking menu** for my portfolio, where it intergrates  
with **Flash and XML**. Now, when i had attached the **menu.swf** mc into my **main.swf** mc file, it seems that the links where I include in XML **doesn’t seems to work at all**. I’ve been trying to ask friends, gurus but they can’t solve this. So I was hoping if there’s some gurus over Kirupa to recognize the problem. Anyway, I’m not expert in flash, just a intermediate 🙂

**Ok, let’s start.**  
This is the site I want to make it live:  
[http://digitalmalaya.com/muid/main.html](http://digitalmalaya.com/muid/main.html)

**Sourcefiles:**  
there’s a file called [http://digitalmalaya.com/muid/menu.swf](http://digitalmalaya.com/muid/menu.swf)  
and to it, there’s an XML menu: [http://digitalmalaya.com/muid/menu.xml](http://digitalmalaya.com/muid/menu.xml)  
and the .fla for the menu: [http://digitalmalaya.com/muid/files/menu.fla](http://digitalmalaya.com/muid/files/menu.fla)

Now, when i include all the links, **not one single url works**. I found a better way to solve this by creating a new menu without using XML at all and use the traditional method, but this a.s is totally cool and i like it 🙂

Anybody know what’s the cause of this? I really appreaciate your help and  
thanks for welcoming me to the forum.

**Cheers,**  
Moedlatif.