# How to populate comboBox and List from XML!

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**Created:** [March 11, 2009, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-populate-combobox-and-list-from-xml/283808 "2009-03-11T11:33:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![secret007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@secret007](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/secret007)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-populate-combobox-and-list-from-xml/283808/1 "2009-03-11T11:33:09Z")

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```php
<root>

 <sport name="soccer">

       <tournament name="Doing league FA Cup"> india-pak 3-2,eng-aus 2-1,zmb-bng 2-2 </tournament>

       <tournament name="Tournament B"> west-new 1-2,holl-kenya 2-3,eng-aus 3-3 </tournament>

       <tournament name="Tournament C"> ind-new 1-2,holl-kenya 2-3,pak-aus 3-3 </tournament>

 </sport>

 <sport name="cricket">

       <tournament name="Doing league FA Cup"> india-pak 3-2,eng-aus 2-1,zmb-bng 2-2 </tournament>

       <tournament name="Tournament B"> west-new 1-2,holl-kenya 2-3,eng-aus 3-3 </tournament>

       <tournament name="Tournament C"> ind-new 1-2,holl-kenya 2-3,pak-aus 3-3 </tournament>

 </sport>

  </root>

```

and i want to populate my comboBox named sports\_cmb with the sports names only there are two in this case, and i want to populate my second comboBox name tournaments\_cmb with the tournaments names of the respective sports , and when anyone select one of the tournament the respective team names and there score will be shown in the list component

plz help me out … thanks in advance…