# Xml and nodes? help me navigate!

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**Created:** [October 27, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-and-nodes-help-me-navigate/274251 "2008-10-27T17:09:51Z")\
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HOPEFULLY this will be pretty quick and painless…😛

I’m having what seems to be a pathing problem with xml and firstChild/childNodes. I’m trying to fill one dynamic textbox with the “city” and another text box with “zip” but can’t seem to get it.

I have and xml file that looks like this

```auto
<database>
&#8722;
<signer>
<city>rome, italy</city>
<zip>
	 2121212112 </zip>
</signer>
</database>

```

and my AS code looks like this

```auto
theXML.onLoad = function() {
	var nodes = this.firstChild.childNodes;
	for (i=0; i<nodes.length; i++) {
		citybox.text +=(nodes*.firstChild.childNodes[0].nodeValue+ "
");
		zipbox.text +=(nodes*.firstChild.childNodes[1].nodeValue+ "
");
	}
}

```