FLASH: XML dtds and Arrays..

[Tobie Kerridge]

hi,


a while ago, i think it was on this list, redstar (thanks for this

resource!) posted a small script to put an xml object into an array. This

allowed you to call up any of the moreover feeds (www.moreover.com for free

newsfeeds) for use within your movie.


For brevity, i'll not reproduce his code here, but mail me if you are

interested in it.


It struck me as is a very powerful thing, allowing you to publish fresh

content within your movie without needing to update anything!


Using this as a staring point, I'm just learning how to use the xml methods

to pull out the correct strings and make a useful array from the initial xml

object. This is proving do be difficult because i cannot visualise the way

flash structures the object, i have tried to look at it in the output window

but it is MASSIVE and my machine grinds to a halt.


Can anyone help with this, or does anyone have a clear Idea of how an XML

documents description, or DTD, relates to the xml object once it has been

called into flash?


It would be amazing if a movie could call in a DTD and modify a flash object

to put the useful parts of the related xml into an array. This way, assuming

the dtd's used the same element names, like "title", "url" etc, a movie

could pull in your "contents" xml file (containing your sources titles, doc

urls and dtd urls) and allow the user to make use of potentially thousands

of fresh, free, content documents.


I hope this is clear, i come from a design background and I'm just starting

to tackle these issues. Please pick me up on things that don't make any

sense, I'm really excited about the potential of flash in "harvesting"

existing resources and setting them in a beautiful environment.


if only the internal sorting wasn't so slow ;)


cheers

Tobie



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