We have achieved some success in the previous chapter. We connected to the server and downloaded a data file. Unfortunately this is was just a simple text file not XML. So in this chapter we will upgrade to an XML file transfer.

We will study the XML parser. This is the component of Flash which interprets all XML data. It reads in the XML and builds a standardized memory structure called the Document Object Model (DOM). We will consider the DOM in detail and learn our way around its features.

In our explorations, we will use of the Flash debugger to browse memory. Once we learn to operate this simple debugger, we can examine data directly - while the Flash program is running.

This is a must-read chapter.

Sol Folango's XML DOM Parser in PHP

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