Webmaster Forum / Flash / Data Integration / January 2008

Hi, I am new to attempting to get data from an xml file load in flash. I
followed a tutorial in a new fla and it seemed to work fine, I then tried to
adapt it to my own needs which worked fine. But then when trying to implement
this into my news section it doesn't seem to work.  
I am trying to make a news section, that displays the date and news article.
This is in within a movie clip, I even tried putting it in the timeline of the
scene but still nothing.

- I have 2 dynamic text boxes, date_txt and news_txt
- The xml file is named news.xml,
- both the fla and the xml are in the same folder

This is the actionscript I am using:

function loadXML(loaded) {

if (loaded) {

_root.thedate =
this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
_root.thenews =
this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
date_txt.text = _root.thedate;
news_txt.text = _root.thenews;
} else {
  trace("file not loaded!");

}

}
xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load("news.xml");

This is what I have in the xml document:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<news>
    <article>
        <date>date</date>
        <news>newentry.</news>
    </article>
    <article>
        <date>Doug Engelbart</date>
        <news>Invented the mouse at the Stanford Research Institute</news>
    </article>
</news>

Does anyone perhaps have any ideas of what the problem could be?

Help much appreciated.