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XML
XML is a very useful method of representing data and it's very much the way to go with Flash.
Learning XML
- W3 School: XML Tutorial - learn about XML and the difference between XML and HTML. You will also learn how to start using XML in your applications.
- HTMLite: XML & XSLT
- HTMLite: XHTML
- http://www.maani.us/xml_slideshow/
- Excellent tutorial on XML and FLASH
Links
Notes
XML uses tags to group related pieces of information into 'nodes'. Nodes are hierarchical, that is, they can contain other nodes within them (child nodes), and their children can contain children, just like MovieClips in Flash (see my Paths tutorial). XML is also associative in that two nodes which are children of the same parent node are recognized as being siblings.
XML is extremely touchy when it comes to formatting. An XML document must strictly conform to various rules in order to be processable: this is a good way to enforce clean coding. The rules are as follows:
All nodes (except self-contained nodes which we may discuss later) must have a beginning and ending tag, which are alphanumerically identical. That means tags are case-sensitive, for instance this is valid:
Valid
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