Question before starting the project

Hi,

Project: Design Challenge

I am working on the front end part. A world map. with lots of buttons (stars) are placed on it. The star should expand and show the details of each post while user mouse over the stars.

Now my challenge is I have to load these data from the XML according to the x position and y position. And on mouse over the data has to load.

This is my sample XML structure:

[XML]
<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“utf-8”?>
<Map xmlns=“config.xsd” title=“Master and Sub Tempaltes”>
<post id = “11”
img = “thumb1”
xvalue = “50”
yvalue = “100”
des = “this is my first post”
/>
<post id = “12”
img = “thumb2”
xvalue = “100”
yvalue = “200”
des = “this is my Second post”
/>
</Map>

[/XML]

How can I start with the project.

My friend came up with one idea

  1. To create a movie clip with mouse over and mouse out action and duplicate the movie clip according to the number of nodes inside the XML. Then load all the contents to the duplicated movie clip.

please have your suggestion. If I can start with a good logic then everything will be easy…