RE: FLASH: XML handling in Flash 5

[Aaron Miller]

I understand the benefits of XML, but what are the particular advantages to using it with Flash? Why not urlencode things on the server and just send variables that way? Obviously that may put more load on the server, but there are definitely better tools for manipulating it server-side than there are with Flash 5... a servlet or XSLT that transforms XML into urlencoded name-value pairs is certainly easier to implement than creating your own suite of utility functions or an API in F5...


The answer is probably that there's not much advantage yet, but in the future there will be.


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