XML/AS/FUNCTION HELL please, somebody, help I'm going to cry

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OK. I need help. I mean I really really need some help.

I’m feeling like a complete moron here, and I’ve posted before but to no avail, and now I think i’ve done EVERY tutorial on the web and I don’t know what to do. I think this should be easy, but for some reason it just doesn’t work out right in my head. I really sincerely have tried. I’m not the super actionscript guru but I really need to do this, and I’ve not gotten anywhere…

So I’m posting again.

Here goes.

I want to do the following:

Store a list of, say, clients, with various children in an external XML file. It looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<mycClients>
	<client>this is the name of the client</client>
		<descrip> this is the description of the client</descrip>
		<clientProjects>
			<project name = "this is a project"> and these are the details of the first project </project>
			<project> this is another project</project>
			<project> this is the third project for selected client. 
			<URL>http://www.linktoproject.com/</URL> </project>
		</clientProjects>
		<clientsFriends>
			<URL>http://www.clientsfriend.com/</URL>
			<URL>http://www.linktoproject.com/</URL>
			<URL>http://www.linktoproject.com/</URL>
			<URL>http://www.linktoproject.com/</URL>
		</clientsFriends>
	</client>
	<client>this is the name of the client</client>
		<descrip> this is the description of the client</descrip>
		<clientProjects>
			<project name = "this is a different project"> and these are the details of the first project </project>
			<project> this is a completely different project</project>
			<project> this is yet another project.
			<URL>http://www.linktoproject.com/</URL> </project>
		</clientProjects>
		<clientsFriends>
			<URL>http://www.clientsfriend.com/</URL>
			<URL>http://www.linktoproject.com/</URL>
			<URL>http://www.linktoproject.com/</URL>
			<URL>http://www.linktoproject.com/</URL>
		</clientsFriends>
	</client>
</myClients>

At this point, it may be a bit of a frankenstein, because I don’t know where my problem might be, so I keep changing it…I’ve got some misc. attributes floating around in there, because I thought that might be better…

Anyway…when the user clicks a BUTTON (not a dynamic button, but one I place on the stage) I want to load all the client’s projects. When the user clicks another button, I wan tto load all of the client’s friends. When the user clicks a third button, I want to load the description of the client.

Into a SIMPLE text box. Just a regular old dynamic text box which I have placed on the stage myself.

When a new button is clicked, the previous data is replaced with the new data.

Here’s my total frankenstein of a piece of AS, which now no longer makes sense to me.

clientArray= new Array();
projectArray = new Array ();
descriptArray = new Array ();
var clientXML:XML = new XML();
objL.ignoreWhite = true;
objXML.onLoad=loadXML;
objXML.load("clientxml.xml");

function loadXML(success:Boolean):Void{
	if (success) {
		_root.clientCount = this.firstChild.childNodes.length;
		_root.pushArray();
	}
	else {
		trace("problems");
	}
}
function pushArray() {
	for (var count = 0; count < _root.clientCount; count ++) {
		var nodeObj = objXML.firstChild.childNodes [count];
		projectArray[count] =nodeObj.attributes.clientProjects;
		descriptArray[count] = nodeObj.attributes.descript;
		friendArray[count]= nodeObj.attributes.clientsFriends;
	}
}

What am I doing wrong? What am I missing? Why is this so hard?! Or is it?

I just want to keep this all as simple as possible so that I can learn to do it right.

Please don’t chastise me for being desperate and posting this again. I have just read an entire book on XML and still don’t get it. Literally.

Please please please help.

Thank you in advance.

-B