# News Ticker in Flash and XML

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-ticker-in-flash-and-xml/275926>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 20, 2008, 5:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-ticker-in-flash-and-xml/275926 "2008-11-20T05:12:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nishka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@Nishka](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Nishka)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 5:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-ticker-in-flash-and-xml/275926/1 "2008-11-20T05:12:16Z")

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I created a News Ticker in Flash CS3 from a tutorial on your site [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/newsticker.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/newsticker.htm)

But it just flashes “undefined” I know I must be messing something up with the location of the XML file or where it’s defined in the action script. I don’t think I understand the “cache” part of the tutorial or why the file can’t be local? I have gone to the suggested links in the tutorial, and being a total novice, I must be missing some main point. I’m attaching the xml and fla. files, if you could please help.  
thank you  
Nishka