# Help with data binding

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**Created:** [November 4, 2004, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-data-binding/69473 "2004-11-04T17:18:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Airman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@Airman](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Airman)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-data-binding/69473/1 "2004-11-04T17:18:02Z")

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Hello,

I am having trouble figuring out data binding. I have 1 XML doc and multiple swf files. What I want to do is have each swf seach through the XML doc for a particular name and then show the data relating to that name. Here is an example of the xml…

\<IMAGE NAME=“Item 1”\>  
\<DESCRIPTION\>Copy for item 1 goes here…\</DESCRIPTION\>  
\<IMAGE\>images/1.jpg\</IMAGE\>  
\</IMAGE\>  
\<IMAGE NAME=“Item 2”\>  
\<DESCRIPTION\>Copy for item 2 goes here…\</DESCRIPTION\>  
\<IMAGE\>images/2.jpg\</IMAGE\>  
\</IMAGE\>

So, one swf would look for the NAME “Item 1” and then display “Copy for item 1 goes here…” and the image loacted at “images/1.jpg”

Thanks!