# Help with xml and picture gallery

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-xml-and-picture-gallery/177279>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 31, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-xml-and-picture-gallery/177279 "2006-01-31T18:40:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![dimitri312](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b77776/32.png) [@dimitri312](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dimitri312)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-xml-and-picture-gallery/177279/1 "2006-01-31T18:40:47Z")

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Hey whats going on…ive just started messing with flash and made an attempt at creating a picture gallery…I stopped when i realized that i was probably approaching this wrong…I was just making it in flash with out xml…so it was very tedious cause i had to create each animation for each thumb and picture…here is the idea I was working on:

[http://www.dimitritx.com/pictures.htm](http://www.dimitritx.com/pictures.htm)

SouthBeach is the only one that does anything currently…

Anyways, i was curious if anyone could give me some advice on how i could approach this, keeping a similiar design but having xml load the pictures…this way if i wanted to add more pictures or galleries i could just update an xml file instead of animating everything.

Thanks for your time.

ps…does anyone know of some solid books for xml and flash design?