Featured Flash FLA 11303 Flash Movies | 7 New Flash Movies Added What's New | Top 100 Featured FLA » Author: Nitin Tikhe » Title: Cart » Description: This Animation Tut is a fun and useful for kids below 15 years. Watch the Flag, Doors, Stick and Horse movements. » More by Nitin Tikhe Random FLAs | Add Flash Movie Featured Flash Site 6008 Flash Sites | 0 New Flash Links What's New | Top 100 Flash Site Featured Site » Posted in the Flash Kit Links section » Title: Banana Swimwear » Description: This is a banana swim wear interactive catalog we designed and animated in Flash Random Links | Add your own Flash Related Links

1255 Tutorials 7 New Tutorials Added! What's New | Top100 » Make flash video player for broadcasting live streaming video / TV on website » How to convert the project file of Flash Demo Builder 2.0 into FLV file » FLV to PSP for Mac - How to convert YouTube video to PSP on mac » How to Convert FLV to MP4 for Playback on iPod » how to download and convert youtube video to AVI with Leawo Free FLV converter » Flash Multi-player Game Tutorial - TicTacToe » How to make Flash elearning tutorials with screen recorder? » Fader API:Slideshow with MovieClips on stage » How to convert MS PPT file into an FLV File » Unknown Tag: Title10 Random Tutorial | Add Site

Network Design Manager The Computer Merchant, Ltd US-VA-Hampton Post A Job | Post A Resume

Tutorials Home What's New Top Rated Submit myTutes Random!

Tutorials » 3rd_Party

Flash 5 and XML
Author: Chris Smith

XML - Simple

I don't want to get too technical on the XML side, so I will keep this simple. XML is a means of describing data in tag format. In plain english, XML lets you make up tags which best describe the information each tag represents. Unlike HTML, which is a simple formatting language for text and media, XML has nothing to do with formatting the data, just describing it. Confused? Well, let's look at a really simple example to clear things up. This is a REALLY simple person XML document containing my first and last name as XML data.

<?xml version="1.0">
<person>
    <last_name>Smith</last_name>
    <first_name>Chris</first_name>
</person>

Not a very complex example, I know, but I think it demonstrates the basics of xml. Rather than putting this kind of data in an html table, which makes it very hard to get at and do anything with (such as reformatting it, sorting it, etc.), the data itself is marked up with tags which describe what the data is.

» Forums
	More help? Search our boards for quick answers!

Please rate this tutorial, 10 is the top rating, you can also click the comments link to read/write a review.

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1