# XML: retreiving data from the Flash generated XML 'String' file

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**Created:** [November 16, 2004, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-retreiving-data-from-the-flash-generated-xml-string-file/128806 "2004-11-16T12:55:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![DannyBoyInMarse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DannyBoyInMarse](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DannyBoyInMarse)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-retreiving-data-from-the-flash-generated-xml-string-file/128806/1 "2004-11-16T12:55:10Z")

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[size=2][font=Arial][size=3]Hi Guys and Gals,[/size][/font]  
[font=Arial][size=3]I want to use the FlashMX prebuild String tables to do a site in 5 languages. I can use my own basic XML file to retreived all that I want. However, with the String XML file generated by flash, it gives me an incredably complicated XML file that I cannot exploit.[/size][/font]  
[font=Arial][size=3]Can someone help please.[/size][/font]  
[font=Arial][size=3]thanks a lot[/size][/font]  
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[font=Arial][size=3]DannyBoyInMarseille[/size][/font]

PS: Here is the basic flash generated XML file. The 2 values that I want to get are:  
IDS\_KLM2=test2fr  
IDS\_SDF1=test1fr  
(you get these generated by going into Window/Other PAnels/Strings)  
[color=blue]\<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8”?\>[/color]  
[color=blue]\<!DOCTYPE xliff PUBLIC “-//XLIFF//DTD XLIFF//EN”“[http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xliff/documents/xliff.dtd](http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xliff/documents/xliff.dtd)” \>[/color]  
[color=blue]\<xliff version=“1.0” xml:lang=“fr”\>[/color]  
[color=blue]\<file datatype=“plaintext” original=“xmldata.fla” source-language=“EN”\>[/color]  
[color=blue]\<header\>\</header\>[/color]  
[color=blue]\<body\>[/color]  
[color=blue]\<trans-unit id=“001” resname=“IDS\_KLM2”\>[/color]  
[color=blue]\<source\>test2fr\</source\>[/color]  
[color=blue]\</trans-unit\>[/color]  
[color=blue]\<trans-unit id=“002” resname=“IDS\_SDF1”\>[/color]  
[color=blue]\<source\>test1fr\</source\>[/color]  
[color=blue]\</trans-unit\>[/color]  
[color=blue]\</body\>[/color]  
[color=blue]\</file\>[/color]  
[color=blue]\</xliff\>[/color][/size]