XML in ActionScript 2 class

1

I’ve just converted some code to an ActionScript 2 class, and now the XML doesn’t work.


class Menus.DropSlideMenu
{
	var _myXML;

	public function DropSlideMenu()
	{
		init();
	}
	function init()
	{
		_myXML = new XML();
		_myXML.ignoreWhite = true;
		_myXML.onLoad = buildMenu;
		_myXML.load("myMenu.xml");
	}
	function buildMenu()
	{
               trace(_myXML); // returns 'undefined':
	}
}

The xml onLoad handler runs but the trace statement returns ‘undefined’.
The .FLA that uses this class looks like this:


import Menus.DropSlideMenu;

mytest = new DropSlideMenu();

Does anyone understand whats going on? I hope this is just a silly error because of the xmas booze.
Thanks.

2 

function buildMenu(success)
        {
                trace(success); // what does this trace?        
}

trace tracing ‘this’ and ‘_parent’ and a combination of those and work from there.