Updating text and images on flash site by xml?

I’m sure this is possible, but am struggling to put it together.

basically I have a photography site that i update regularly with client images and new information, but me and flash doesn’t exactly get on!

I bought a flash template and have spent about a month fiddling about and slowly learning how flash works, and my knowledge of flash (non-existant) has shot up dramatically, but there are still things that baffle me.

Is there any way of having an area on the page which looks at an XML for the information - text in some cases and photographs in another?

I’m sure it is done in actionscript but when i try and piece it together I get it wrong, and I’m not sure how to layout the xml.

Thanks