XML help

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Hi!

I have just started to learn more about XML in Flash but so far it’s all a bit confusing.
I have this photo site that I’m working on at the moment and I can’t figure out how to load dynamically specified photo galleries.

I load in my XML on the first frame of the root timeline with this script:


function loadXML(loaded) {
	if (loaded) {
		xmlNode = this.firstChild;
		_global.titel = [];
		total = xmlNode.childNodes.length;
			for (i=0; i<total; i++) {
				_global.title* = xmlNode.childNodes*.childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
				}
	} 
};
xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load("photos.xml");

This works perfectly when creating a dynamic menu. I just call the global Titel variable inside my menu_mc.

The problem is I have decided to go deeper into the hierarchy of my XML and add Thumbnail- and Picture-urls under every gallery title.

Here’s my XML:


<photos>
    <item>
	      <title>Ought to be Freer</title>
		<date>October 12th, 2003</date>
		<venue>Kulturbolaget, Malmö</venue>
		<galleries>
			<gallery>
				<thumbnails>
					<thumbnail>/photos/ought_to_be_freer/t1.jpg</thumbnail>
					<thumbnail>/photos/ought_to_be_freer/t2.jpg</thumbnail>				</thumbnails>
				<photos>
					<photo>/photos/ought_to_be_freer/f1.jpg</photo>
					<photo>/photos/ought_to_be_freer/f2.jpg</photo>
				</photos>
			</gallery>
		</galleries>
		<description>This set was taken during an intense concert bla, bla, bla...</description>
    </item>
</photos>

Now, I don’t have any difficulties parsing out the description, date or venue but since I have to know how many galleries there is in every Item and then put their URLS in arrays I have som problem calling the Photos/Thumbnails.

I’ll be extremely thankful if anyone would like to help me with this.

Especially if someone could tell me later how I do a for loop inside an mc to extract the data.

Regards,
spaceman_helge