A TextField nested inside a MovieClip will work as follows
myMovieClip_mc.myTextField_txt.text = "Abc"

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Lon Hosford
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i have text loading from xml
my text needed to be masked, there for i convert the text field to movie
clip
but
now i cant see the text from the external file.
my question is:
can i load text into text box converted to movie clip?