# Reading xml in a flash textbox

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reading-xml-in-a-flash-textbox/194873>\
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**Created:** [July 26, 2006, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reading-xml-in-a-flash-textbox/194873 "2006-07-26T21:30:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Atris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@Atris](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Atris)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reading-xml-in-a-flash-textbox/194873/1 "2006-07-26T21:30:57Z")

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hello all.

i have an xml file that i’m reading into a textbox in flash. (learned how to do that here at kirupa!) now i need the information in the xml file to be linkable from the flash frontend. what i’m looking for is the user to have the ability to click on a name (in the xml file) and go to a url. i don’t know a lot about xml but i know that i tried to add an \<a herf""\>\</a\> in the xml file and it didn’t show up in flash.

forever learning…always humbled