# Xml parsing problem

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**Created:** [August 9, 2008, 8:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-parsing-problem/268091 "2008-08-09T08:04:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![sandin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@sandin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sandin)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 8:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-parsing-problem/268091/1 "2008-08-09T08:04:13Z")

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hi, i have an xml of following type

\<a\>123\</a\>  
\<b\>456\</b\>  
\<c\>789\</c\>  
\<d\>123\</d\>  
\<e\>456\</e\>  
\<f\>7789\</f\>

i have this in a XMLList name myxml…

now am accessing like myxml[0], myxml[1], myxml[2]…

but am not sure of the order on which it ll come, so i cant access like that, so i want to access them with the property names, i mean a,b,c,d,e…

how to do that

like if i need “e” in myxml, i should get “456”…how to do that…

i tried trace(myxml.child(“e”)); , but it dint work… what to do  
pls tel