# How do I start learning to use XML?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-start-learning-to-use-xml/194819
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 26, 2006, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-start-learning-to-use-xml/194819 "2006-07-26T15:14:46Z")
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### Author: ![Al6200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Al6200](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Al6200)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2006, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-start-learning-to-use-xml/194819/1 "2006-07-26T15:14:46Z")

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Hello, and I’ve been Actionscripting for quite a while now, and a lot of the sources I see and books I read talk about something called XML. I understand that its a formatting language used to communicated with servers, and the syntax looks like html.

I have a few books on AS, but I don’t really get the XML stuff. Is the idea that I use an XML segment of code in my Flash to import in a document to flash at runtime? Or is it that I can load variables from an external document?

I don’t have my own server but I do have the ability to upload files to servers, so I could probably make a file that can communicate with an SWF, and I’m told XML is the way…

So does anyone know a good way to learn about XML, and what is actually is and can do?