Problem with xml and flash loading

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Hi All

I am trying to load data from mysql to xml to flash using actionscript and php. Im doing something wrong but not sure what.

Basically, my php file (latestnews.php) looks like this

<?php

header("Content-type: text/xml");


$host = "host";
$user = "user";
$pass = "password";
$database = "dbname";

$linkID = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die("Could not connect to host.");
mysql_select_db($database, $linkID) or die("Could not find database.");

$query = "SELECT * FROM latestnews ORDER BY timestamp DESC LIMIT 0,3";
$resultID = mysql_query($query, $linkID) or die("Data not found.");

$xml_output = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encode=\"UTF-8\"?>
";
$xml_output = "<!DOCTYPE data[
               <!ELEMENT headline (text, date)>
               <!ATTLIST headline name CDATA #REQUIRED>
               <!ELEMENT text (#PCDATA)>
               <!ELEMENT date (#PCDATA)>
               ]>
";
$xml_output .= "<entries>
";

for($x = 0 ; $x < mysql_num_rows($resultID) ; $x++){
    $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($resultID);
    $xml_output .= "	<entry>
";
    
    $xml_output .= "		<headline name=\" ". $row['headline'] . "\">
";
        // Escaping illegal characters
        $row['content'] = str_replace("&", "&", $row['content']);
        $row['content'] = str_replace("<", "<", $row['content']);
        $row['content'] = str_replace(">", "&gt;", $row['content']);
        $row['content'] = str_replace("\"", "&quot;", $row['content']);
    $xml_output .= "		<text><![CDATA[" . $row['content'] . "]]></text>
";
    $xml_output .= "		<date><![CDATA[" . $row['timestamp'] . "]]></date>
";
    $xml_output .= "	</headline>
";
    $xml_output .= "	</entry>
";
}

$xml_output .= "</entries>";

echo $xml_output;

?>

this produces the following xml layout

<entries>
&#8722;
<entry>
&#8722;
<headline name=" This is a Test News">
<text>Test News Description</text>
<date>2009-05-17 19:40:33</date>
</headline>
</entry>
&#8722;
<entry>
&#8722;
<headline name=" Site launch 21st May 2009">
&#8722;
<text>
test news
</text>
<date>2009-05-17 19:38:50</date>
</headline>
</entry>
&#8722;
<entry>
&#8722;
<headline name=" This is another test news">
<text>Test news news news news</text>
<date>2009-05-17 00:00:00</date>
</headline>
</entry>
</entries>

my actionscript is then as follows

myXML = new XML();
        myXML.ignoreWhite = true;
        myXML.load("admin/includes/latestnews.php");
        myXML.ref = this;
        
        myXML.onLoad = function(success){
        if(success){
            var root = this.firstChild;
            nodes = root.childNodes;
            for(var i=0; i<nodes.length; i++) {        
                this.ref["Title_txt"+i].htmlText = nodes*.attributes.name;
                subnodes = nodes*.childNodes;
                this.ref["Comments_txt"+i].htmlText = subnodes[0].firstChild.toString();
                this.ref["Date_txt"+i].htmlText = subnodes[1].firstChild.toString();
            }
        } else trace("Error loading XML document");
    }

this is placed in the same frame number as the dynamic text fields but on a seperate layer. The dynamic text fields are:

Title_txt
Comments_txt
Date_txt

There is no output error but nothing is showing up. The file is using actionscript 2.0 and wondering if the actionscript i am using is write for that format?

any help would be great, bit of a novice with xml loading!