# Returning values

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/returning-values/200452
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [September 12, 2006, 12:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/returning-values/200452 "2006-09-12T12:52:59Z")
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### Author: ![ryan\_imart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e8cbc/32.png) [@ryan\_imart](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ryan_imart)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2006, 12:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/returning-values/200452/1 "2006-09-12T12:52:59Z")

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```auto
//XMLController
  //Comment: Include XML Controller for language translation functionality.
  //Developer: Ryan Roberts 
  //Date: 9-5-2006
  public function ParseXML(xmlFile:String){
   
   //"E:/Inetpub/Nutrilite_Frontsite/en-us/Support/ntLanguages.xml"
   
   trace("ParseXML XML FILE:" + xmlFile);
   
   var strMenuHTML = "";
   var xmlDSReturn:Array = new Array;
   var strXPath:String = "/Languages/Language[@Type]";
   var intCnt:Number = 0;
   var xmlDataSource:XML = new XML();
 
    xmlDataSource.ignoreWhite = true;
    xmlDataSource.load(xmlFile); 
    
    xmlDataSource.onLoad = function(){
     
     xmlDSReturn = mx.xpath.XPathAPI.selectNodeList(xmlDataSource.firstChild, strXPath);
  
      for (intCnt = 0; intCnt < xmlDSReturn.length; intCnt++) {
        strMenuHTML = strMenuHTML + "<a href=\"" + xmlDSReturn[intCnt].attributes["RelativeURL"].toString() + xmlDSReturn[intCnt].attributes["Abbreviation"].toString() + "/default.aspx" + "\">" + xmlDSReturn[intCnt].attributes["Type"].toString() + "</a><br/>"
       
       }
       
       return strMenuHTML;
     
     }
    
    }

```

When I call this function which lies in a class attached to a movie clip I pass the required arguments and the function fires and i can trace the results, but how do use the return strMenuHTML inside the movie clip which this attached to?

this.ParseXML(“E:/Inetpub/Nutrilite\_Frontsite/en-us/Support/ntLanguages.xml”);

If the variable is declared as a string, or lets say i built an array will it return that way?

Thankyou much!  
-Ry