Webmaster Forum / Flash / Data Integration / October 2008

Check out the help files under actionscript 3 working with XML

Working with XML > Reading external XML documents  reading XML documents

var myXML:XML = new XML();
var XML_URL:String = "http://www.example.com/Sample3.xml";
var myXMLURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest(XML_URL);
var myLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(myXMLURL);
myLoader.addEventListener("complete", xmlLoaded);

function xmlLoaded(event:Event):void
{
    myXML = XML(myLoader.data);
    trace("Data loaded.");
}