# Updating XML

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/updating-xml/143450>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [April 6, 2005, 1:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/updating-xml/143450 "2005-04-06T01:24:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![rhamej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@rhamej](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rhamej)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 1:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/updating-xml/143450/1 "2005-04-06T01:24:26Z")

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How do you guys go about letting a client update an XML file that gets read from Flash?  
What I have done in the past.  
I built a litle .swf that displays the XML file in an input text field. But it displays all the nodes. So in order to change it, you just basically copy a node, change the text and image link, then hit a submit button. Then PHP code overwrites the XML file with whatever was in the input textbox.  
But what if you have a client that is extemely dumb when it comes to understanding nodes and stuff like that?  
So my question I guess is what are some of the pros here doing in situations like this?