How to treat incoming XML as variable names?

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Hi,

I use AS3 in Flash to read XML from an external document. I’m wondering how to tell AS3 to read and treat some of the incoming XML values as variable names. For example, in the beginning of my Actionscript, I have defined the variable:

var playerAge:Number;

and some of the incoming XML nodes look like:

<whichVariable> playerAge </whichVariable>
<whichValue> 10 </whichValue>

Now, upon reading these two nodes, I want to make a function that adds the value of the second node to the variable with the name contained in the first node. However, I can only get AS3 to read the value of the first node as a a string (“playerAge”). How do I get it to make the ‘connection’ between the XML node and the variable with the same name?

Thanks in advance.