Flash and XML go together like peanut butter and jelly. If your working on a project where there is data inside of Flash that is likely to change then XML is the way to go. That way you, or anyone with a text editor, can update an XML file - essentially a text file - and change things inside your Flash app.

The downside to using XML is that the data you get back can be confusing as hell to navigate through. I had to deal with it enough that I finally created a class - PXP2 - that takes care of all the mundane aspects of using XML so that you can get right to work and skip a lot of code and confusion.

In this tutorial I’ll do a simple example of how I would create a site navigation using XML.

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A few notes: there is no AS3 version PXP2 of this because AS3 has the E4x class which is like PXP2 on steroids. I’ll do a tutorial on how to use E4x in a few weeks.

PXP2 stands for: Polygeek Xml Parsing Project = PXPP = PXP2