Loading an XML document using a relative file path

programming flash
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Hi… I’m at my wits end with this, so any suggestions or advice would be great.

I’ve created an flv video player that has playlist information added from an xml document. The swf player, video and xml doc are all located in the same folder on one server, but will be accessed from another server.

In order that other people can edit the playlist information without having to access the fla, I need the playlist to be accessed by the swf with a relative file path. However, only an absolute path to the xml doc works, as illustrated here…

http://195.219.160.118/dfes/flash/NationalStrategy/audio/cross_server_test.html

When I use a relative file path the title text doesn’t load. Are there any workarounds for this? It’s not a cross-domain issue, as I’ve already been down that road.

I’ve read that using [COLOR=RoyalBlue]fileObject.readAll()[/COLOR] instead of [COLOR=RoyalBlue]xml.load()[/COLOR] remedies this, but having very little actionscript knowledge I don’t know how to get this working. Any advice?

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you need to call the xml relative to the html document, not the swf.