# Masking Dynamic Text not showing up

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**Created:** [February 28, 2007, 8:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-dynamic-text-not-showing-up/217604 "2007-02-28T08:52:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![kptgreg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@kptgreg](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kptgreg)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 8:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-dynamic-text-not-showing-up/217604/1 "2007-02-28T08:52:30Z")

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I’m using Flash8. I did this tutorial:  
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/maskfonts.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/maskfonts.htm)

And my problem isn’t the mask but the dynamic text is not loading from the XML file anymore. I think this is because in the tutorial the first thing you do is make the dynamic text field a movie clip. As soon as I do that the text data doesn’t load from the external XML file. The code that previously worked was:

[COLOR=navy]\_root.prompt = this.firstChild.childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue; [/COLOR]  
[COLOR=navy][/COLOR]  
[COLOR=navy]prompt\_txt.text = \_root.prompt;[/COLOR]  
[COLOR=#000080][/COLOR]  
[COLOR=black]But now I made the dynamic text field prompt\_txt a movie clip named prompt\_mc and it doesn’t load. So I realize now that prompt\_txt lives inside prompt\_mc but how do I get the text data from the XML file there???[/COLOR]