XML and ActionScript Help!

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Okay I am working on a personal project and I need to know if XML will be able to display an ‘swf’ file threw ActionScript.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<myNews>
	<newsItem>
		<news date="versus media group, llc" />
		<content>Versus Media Group is a company that I co-own with my business partner Joseph Hawk. We specialize in digital marketing and advertising.</content>
		<swf>versusmediagroup.swf</swf>
		<link>http://www.versusmediagroup.com</link>
	</newsItem>
</myNews>

This is my XML file, cut down for one entry, and so far I have the first two displaying correctly, it runs threw the xml file parses the ‘date’ attribute and displays it vertically and the ‘content’ is displayed in a dynamic text box.

Here is my action script thus far:


stop();
//
path = this;
function loadXML(success) {
	if (success) {
		xmlNode = this.firstChild.childNodes;
		for (i=0; i<xmlNode.length; i++) {
			var date = xmlNode*.childNodes[0].attributes.date;
			var desc = xmlNode*.childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
			var swf = xmlNode*.childNodes[2].firstChild.nodeValue;
			var link = xmlNode*.childNodes[3].firstChild.nodeValue;
			var cmc = path.attachMovie("newsItem", "newsItem"+i, path.getNextHighestDepth());
			cmc._y = i*cmc._height;
			cmc.news_txt.text = date;
			cmc.desc = desc;
			cmc.swf = swf;
			cmc.link_txt.text = link;
			cmc.news_btn.onRelease = function() {
				desc_txt.text = this._parent.desc;
				swf_container = this.loadMovie(swf);
				link_mc = this._parent.link;
			};
		}
	}
}
var news_xml = new XML();
news_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
news_xml.onLoad = loadXML;
news_xml.load("web.xml");

Again the first two parts are working fine but i can’t get the link to the swf to open the swf file, and the link to use the launch button. also i’m not sure how to do this but i would like to be able to hide the launch button if a link isn’t available.

Here is a link to the work so far:

www.yourransom.com/comingsoon