Parsing xml issue

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Hello, not sure the title is the most exact. but i’m on day 2 of learning as3 and not sure what the problem is exactly.

i’ve been putting together a script to parse twitter feeds via xml, add the html code to link any hyperlinks in the post and throw each resulting post into one of two textareas (box0 & box1).

unfortunatly it is printing all 3 (the amount so far posted) posts into each text box.

any tips on how to fix this code to a) put 1 post per box and b) limit the amount of posts it pulls from the xml, would be much appreciated.

thanks in advance for looking at the horrificly messy code


package
{
    
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.events.MouseEvent;
    import flash.net.navigateToURL;
    import flash.net.URLRequest;
    import flash.net.URLLoader;
    import flash.events.Event;
    
    public class Twitter_Main extends MovieClip
    {
        
        public function Twitter_Main():void
        {
            initButton();
            initTwit();
        }
        private function initButton():void
        {
            followBtn.buttonMode = true;
        }
        private function down(e:MouseEvent):void
        {
            followBtn.gotoAndStop(3);
            followBtn.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, down);
            followBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, follow);
        }
        private function follow(e:MouseEvent):void
        {
            navigateToURL(new URLRequest("http://twitter.com/HotPinkMag"), "_blank");
            followBtn.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, follow);
        }
        private function initTwit():void
        {
            var l:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
            l.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loaded);
            l.load(new URLRequest("http://www.etherealdesign.co.uk/mc/twit.xml"));                                                                          
        }
        private function loaded(e:Event):void
        {
            e.currentTarget.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loaded);
            var xml:XML = new XML(e.currentTarget.data);
            var list:XMLList = new XMLList(xml.status.text);
            var boxArray:Array = new Array();
            
            for(var i:int = 0; i < 2; ++i){
                
                /*boxArray* = this.getChildByName("box" + i);
                boxArray*.textBox.appendText(list*);
    */
    // ******************START parse**************************
            var test:String = new String (xml.status.text);
            trace(test);
            
            var aWords:Array = test.split(" ");
            var finalString:String = ""; // 
            var len:int = aWords.length; 

for(var n:int = 0; n<len; n++)
{
    var word:String = aWords[n]; 
    finalString += " " + checkWord(word); // Run the word through a checkWord method, and tack the 
    // return value onto the end of our finalString (along with a space character, to space the words out)
}
function checkWord(word:String):String
{
 
   if(word.indexOf("http:") == 0)
   {
         // This word starts with "http:" at index 0 (the beginning of the word)
 
         // Wrap it in html href (anchor) tags:
         return "<a href='" + word + "'>" + word + "</a>";
   } else if (word.indexOf("@") == 0) {
         // This word starts with "@" at index 0 (the beginning of the word)
 
         var justTheName:String = word.substr(1, word.length); // Remove the "@" from the username
         // We do this because we need to link to http://www.twitter.com/untoldent (for example),
         // not http://www.twitter.com/@untoldent
 
         // Wrap it in html href (anchor) tags:
         return "<a href='http://www.twitter.com/" + justTheName + "'>" + word + "</a>";
   } else {
        // There's nothing special about this word.  Return it as-is.
        return word;
        
   }
}            
//******************************stop parse*****************************
            
            boxArray* = this.getChildByName("box" + i);
            boxArray*.textBox.htmlText = finalString;
            
            
            }
        }
    }
}