Re: [flasher] XML Handling in Flash 5

[flasher]

It appears we are at a stalemate. You prefer to be 'technologically

interesting', I prefer to be compatible. We can both achieve the same

results with equally efficient coding. You use the arrays of Flash 5,

I use the array simulation of Flash 4. You let Flash move the XML to

arrays, I let a server side XSLT engine move the XML data to variables

in a text file; I feel there is a slight advantage to using the XSLT

here since there are built in mechanisms for sorting, filtering, etc.

We can both make relatively small changes to achieve dramatically

different displays.


However, the statement included below is not true. I always have

&done=done as the final element of my name value pairs and use a check

against the variable done to determine when the entire variable set is

loaded. I don't see how this is any different than the loaded() function.


This is a very interesting discussion. I am glad to see someone is making

use of the limited XML functionality in Flash. Hopefully someone from

Macromedia is taking note of this and other discussions regarding Flash

and XML. They might realize that incorporating a fully functional XML engine

which utilizes DTDs to understand a document's structure (rather than just

tags, white space and carriage returns), XSLT processing and maybe

even validation will put their already impressive products over the

top. I truly feel this functionality, in combination with the ability

to write to a local hard drive from within the stand alone player,

would lead to true dominance in the market of programs for developing

net enabled and distributeable media apps.



Cheers,

John Andrew Morrison

> 

> oh, one other thing:

> about the file size being smaller if you don't use xml: you can do a

> preloader while loading the xml using the loaded() function; which you can't

> really do with loading variables.

> 

> -daryn

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