# Stuck on xml menu

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stuck-on-xml-menu/216065>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 13, 2007, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stuck-on-xml-menu/216065 "2007-02-13T14:08:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![pisosse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/46a35a/32.png) [@pisosse](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pisosse)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stuck-on-xml-menu/216065/1 "2007-02-13T14:08:42Z")

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heya folks

I can’t get the submenu fired from the mainmenu mc…

the thing is I’l like both the main- and sub menu items to be dynamic so your able to ad a new mainmenu item with whatever submenuitems…

I can launch the first node from submenu items with this…

```auto
myXML = new XML();
myXML.ignoreWhite = true;
myXML.load("menu.xml");
myXML.ref = this;

item_count =0;
item_spacing = 30;

function displayText(){
    
    
    testDisplay_mc.test_txt.text = this.description_text
};

myXML.onLoad = function(success) {
        if (success) {
                
                // use XPath to select the node we want
                path = "data/work[@categorie='Web']";
                var nodes:Array = mx.xpath.XPathAPI.selectNodeList(this.firstChild, path);
                
                for (var i in nodes) {
                        
                        //this.ref.categorie.push(nodes*.attributes.categorie);
                        
                        var subnodes = nodes*.childNodes;
                        //this.ref.Title.push(subnodes[0].firstChild.toString());
                        //this.ref.description.push(subnodes[1].firstChild.toString());
                        trace(subnodes)
                        item_count++;
                        item_mc = container_mc.attachMovie("item","item"+item_count,i);
                        item_mc._y = item_spacing*i;
                        
                        
                        item_mc.item_txt.text = subnodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue
                        
                        item_mc.description_text = subnodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue
                        item_mc.onRelease = displayText;
                        

                }
                
        } else {
                trace("Error loading XML document");
        }
};

```

but I can’t get both describtion a and b out on different mc’s…

any suggestions?

heres my xml for good maesure

```auto
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<data>
    <work categorie="Web">
        <title>title_0</title>
        <description>description_0</description>
    </work>
    <work categorie="Print">
        <title>title_1</title>
        <description>description_1</description>
    </work>
    <work categorie="Web">
        <title>title_2</title>
        <description>description_2</description>
    </work>
    <work categorie="Print">
        <title>title_3</title>
        <description>description_3</description>
    </work>
    <work categorie="Web">
        <title>title_4</title>
        <description>description_4</description>
    </work>
 <work categorie="Web">
        <title>title_5</title>
        <description>description_5</description>
    </work>

</data>

```