# XML trouble
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-trouble/64611
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [September 17, 2004, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-trouble/64611 "2004-09-17T23:06:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@UC\_PRO](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/UC_PRO)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2004, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-trouble/64611/1 "2004-09-17T23:06:53Z")
This what I got so far
[COLOR=Red]\
\
\41\
\TEST\
\123456\
\
\[/COLOR]
and the AS that I was trying to do is:
[COLOR=Blue]function loadXML(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
\_root.eqid= this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
\_root.desc= this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
\_root.serial= this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
id.text = \_root.eqid;
desc.text = \_root.desc;
serial.text = \_root.serial;
} else {
trace(“file not loaded!”);;
}
}
xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load(“structure.xml”);
[/COLOR]
the problem I think I have is the firstChild directions…please help, I did the tut on your site [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/xmldataflash.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/xmldataflash.htm)
and still dont understand the direction from tree to branch…you got in your AS inventor as root and comment as root, that doent make much sense to me. Isnt comment a node instead of a root ?
thanks in advance!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2004, 11:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-trouble/64611/2 "2004-09-18T11:28:34Z")
another question is, is it possiable to enable flash to write to a xml file?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2004, 11:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-trouble/64611/3 "2004-09-18T11:42:32Z")
1. welcome to Kirupa! :pleased:
2.
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and
```php
tags help make code more legible and thereby help people understand the code better thereby helping them better answer your question.
3) ... you really didn't have a question :huh: You just gave some code and said you think the problem is... ? What exactly is the question again?
4) did you know that you are assigning equid, desc and serial all to the same value ( this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue; ) ?
5) also, I hope the desc and serial textfields are not in _root since you just defined variables in _root with the same name. You'd then have no way to distinguish between the two.
:)
````
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2004, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-trouble/64611/4 "2004-09-18T16:18:44Z")
Ok, that made no sense!..or just maybe I’m so far in left feild…