# Xml href question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-href-question/229035>\
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**Created:** [June 13, 2007, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-href-question/229035 "2007-06-13T15:31:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![woopig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb9ed0/32.png) [@woopig](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/woopig)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2007, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-href-question/229035/1 "2007-06-13T15:31:02Z")

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hello…i have been researching this for a while now and still can’t get it to work. does anyone know how to make an \<a href\> tag work in an xml file? I have a photo gallery flash file that is referencing this xml file:

\</image\>

\<image\>  
\<pic\>images/image\_2.jpg\</pic\>  
\<thumb\>images/thumb\_2.jpg\</thumb\>  
\<title\>Project 2\</title\>  
\<desc\>whatever text\</desc\>  
\</image\>

i tried placing this code \<![CDATA[\<a href=“[www.google.com](http://www.google.com)” target=“blank”\>google\</a\>]]\> in the \<desc\> tag. it did not work.

does anyone know what exactly needs to go into the xml file and the flash actionscript to make this work? any help is greatly appreciated. i am at a loss. thanks.