# How to make Flash find, open and display my XML document!?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-make-flash-find-open-and-display-my-xml-document/73281
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [December 14, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-make-flash-find-open-and-display-my-xml-document/73281 "2004-12-14T20:51:27Z")
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### Author: ![crobley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5ac83/32.png) [@crobley](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/crobley)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-make-flash-find-open-and-display-my-xml-document/73281/1 "2004-12-14T20:51:27Z")

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GEEZ!!! Ive looked everywhere and everyone has just really complicated XML questions.  
I have a Flash site that is going to display some educational classes. All I want is for each class:  
The **Name of the class** & a **Short description** of the class

Thats all I want!

So im assuming the XML will look like this (this is my 1st XML):

[color=darkred]\<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“iso-8859-1”?\>  
\<classes\>  
\<classA\>  
\<name\>This is the name of class A\</name\>  
\<description\>This is the class A description\</description\>  
\</classA\>  
\<classB\>  
\<name\>This is the name of class B\</name\>  
\<description\>This is the class B description\</description\>  
\</classB\>  
\</classes\>[/color]

[color=black]Ok, so that looks good…i think. [/color]  
The XML is called “[color=darkred]Class.xml[/color]” -so now how do i make Flash find: “[color=darkred]Class.xml[/color]” and display the information where I want it??

Thanks everyone!