# XML menu... help needed!

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-menu-help-needed/151516
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**Created:** [June 15, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-menu-help-needed/151516 "2005-06-15T23:31:32Z")
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### Author: ![jusko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jusko](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jusko)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-menu-help-needed/151516/1 "2005-06-15T23:31:32Z")

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Hi everyone!!! I have an XML drop-down menu, and I need to have the menu items to load external swf into a container in my movie!!

this is a example of the code I have:  
\<menu name=“MyMenu”\>  
\<item name=“Friends” action=“gotoURL”  
variables="\<A href=“[http://www.whatever.com](http://www.whatever.com)”/"\>[http://www.whatever.com](http://www.whatever.com)"/\>

what code should i use for loading external swf???

I have an emptyMovieClip called “container” and a swf called “help”!  
I tried:  
\<item name=“Friends” action=“loadMovie”  
variables=“help.swf, container”/\>

obviously it didn’t work!!! How do i tell the XML this is AS code??? do i need to?

thanks a lot anyone!!!  
cheers