# XML multi-paragraph text data

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-multi-paragraph-text-data/230615>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [June 27, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-multi-paragraph-text-data/230615 "2007-06-27T17:55:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![bednar85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@bednar85](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bednar85)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-multi-paragraph-text-data/230615/1 "2007-06-27T17:55:30Z")

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I am a somewhat experience flash designer who is starting to dive into the power of AS. I am a little familiar with passing data such as image and mp3 information into a Flash file just by using XML and AS.

My question is, And would it be possible to count the number of characters already input from a multi-paragraph XML tag and then continue passing that data in (for a multi-column layout)? Would XML be the best solution?

example image: [http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~rab622/sample\_lorem\_fill.jpg](http://www.pages.drexel.edu/%7Erab622/sample_lorem_fill.jpg)

Thanks,  
Ryan