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Flash 5 and XML
Author: Chris Smith

The XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE moreovernews (View Source for full doctype...)> <-- Document definition.  We can ignore this line for our purposes.
<moreovernews><-- The document's top-level element.  This is known as the root node.
    <article id="_12591194"><-- An article node.  It is a child node of the moreovernews tag above.
    <-- Now on to the children of each article.  This is the meat and potatoes we are after.
    Particularly the url data and the headline_text data-->
        <url>http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x12591193</url><-- We want this, our link
        <headline_text>PlayStation 2 continues the legend</headline_text> <-- TAnd we want this, our link text.
        <source>STUFF</source>
        <media_type>text</media_type>
        <cluster>Computer games news</cluster>
        <tagline />
        <document_url>http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/index/0,1008,0a28,FF.html</document_url>
        <harvest_time>Nov 26 2000 7:10PM</harvest_time>
        <access_registration />
        <access_status />
    </article>
    ...more article nodes...
</moreovernews>	  <-- Close of the moreovernews node.

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