How to best parse this xml file i am stuck?

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Hi there,

A bit stuck here with the firstchild and childnodes
here’s the xml


      <website>
        <page id="1">
          <pageTitle>
page title 1          </pageTitle>
          <pageContent>
page content 1
          </pageContent>
		  <pageQuote />
        </page>
        <page id="2">
          <pageTitle>
page title 2
          </pageTitle>
          <pageContent>
page content 2
          <pageQuote>Hello world</pageQuote>
        </page>
        		
		<footerContent>Copyright
		</footerContent>
		<menu>
			<menuItem gotoURL="/index">Who</menuItem>
			<menuItem gotoURL="/index">Portfolio</menuItem>
		</menu>
		
      </website>

now so far i have this function loadWebsiteContent


function loadWebsiteContent(loaded) {
	if (loaded) {
	
		var pagesNode = this.firstChild.childNodes;
		trace("Pages: "+pagesNode.length);
		for (var i = 0; i<pagesNode.length; i++) {	
			var tempWebsiteContent:Object = new Object();
			
				pageItems = pagesNode*;
				
				if (pageItems.nodeName == 'page'){
				tempWebsiteContent.pageNr = pageItems.attributes.id;
				tempWebsiteContent.pageTitle = pageItems.childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
				tempWebsiteContent.pageContent = pageItems.childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
				tempWebsiteContent.pageQuote = pageItems.childNodes[2].firstChild.nodeValue;
				websiteContent.push(tempWebsiteContent);
				} //.end page node
				if (pageItems.nodeName == 'footerContent') {
					contentWeb.footer_mc.footer.text = pageItems.firstChild.nodeValue;
				} //.end footerContent
				if (pageItems.nodeName == 'menu') {
					var numOfMenuItems:Number = pagesNode*.childNodes.length;
					menuItems = pagesNode*.childNodes;
					for(var j:Number = 0; j < numOfMenuItems; j++) {
						var tempMenu:Object = new Object();
						
						tempMenu.gotoURL = menuItems.attributes.gotoURL;
						tempMenu.menuItem = menuItems.childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
						menu.push(tempMenu);
						trace("Url attr: "+tempMenu.gotoURL);
					}
					
				}
		}
		trace("Test: "+websiteContent[2].pageTitle);
		trace("Menu items: "+menu[2].menuItem);
		trace("--------------------------------------");
	} else {
		content = "file not loaded!";
	}
}

Children give me a headache, :wink:

Any tips how to loop thru the pages nodes (pages) and menu nodes (menuItems)