# XML-Driven Drop-Down Menu

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-driven-drop-down-menu/110794
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**Created:** [May 19, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-driven-drop-down-menu/110794 "2004-05-19T20:22:51Z")
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### Author: ![Prophit5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b5ac83/32.png) [@Prophit5](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Prophit5)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-driven-drop-down-menu/110794/1 "2004-05-19T20:22:51Z")

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Trying to create an XML driven nav system.

I went thru the tutorial on Kirupa and it worked fine. My problem is that I want to load SWFs into the existing navigation SWF as opposed to external html pages. First I cannot even load SWFs without using gotoURL and showing the entire path. Second I cannot load the SWFs into the existing movie. This is the XML code I’ve been trying to use:

\<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“iso-8859-1”?\>  
\<menu name=“links”\>  
\<menu name=“about”\>  
\<item name=“mission statement” action=“loadMovie” variables=“mission.swf”/\>  
\<item name=“vision” action=“loadMovie” variables=“vision.swf”/\>  
\<item name=“team” action=“getURL” variables=“team.swf”/\>  
\</menu\>  
\<menu name=“services”\>  
\<item name=“architecture” action=“getURL” variables=“architecture.swf”/\>  
\<item name=“multimedia” action=“getURL” variables=“multimedia.swf”/\>  
\<item name=“design” action=“getURL” variables=“design.swf”/\>  
\<item name=“branding” action=“getURL” variables=“branding.swf”/\>  
\</menu\>  
\<menu name=“portfolio”\>  
\<item name=“architecture” action=“getURL” variables=“architecture.swf”/\>  
\<item name=“multimedia” action=“getURL” variables=“multimedia.swf”/\>  
\<item name=“design” action=“getURL” variables=“design.swf”/\>  
\<item name=“branding” action=“getURL” variables=“branding.swf”/\>  
\</menu\>  
\<item name=“contact” action=“getURL” variables=“contact.swf”/\>  
\</menu\>

I’ve tried getURL and loadMovie but none of them seem to work. I have to believe that this is something quite simple, and it’s just a matter of syntax.

//Frustrated and Confused