Flash 5 XML

[Jesse Shanks <blankreb@blankreb.com>]

I work on a web site devoted to DVD reviews 
(http://www.digitallyobsessed.com)

For the last few months, I have been tinkering with various ways to 
syndicate our content as a potential revenue source down the road (I 
know, ha ha).

Our site is PHP/MYSQL and I have created some scripts that I run to 
generate an IE channel, a Netscape  side bar and I also created an RSS 
file based on the Netscape standard (0.91)

My latest thing is using Macromedia Flash's XML parser to display 
content. I recently joined this group to learn more and I was hoping 
that some might have an opportunity to take a look at it and provide 
some conceptual feedback.

http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/docxml_ws1.html

The movie is only about 10K in its current incarnation. It loads the XML 
version of the home page by default. There are links to the most recent 
DVD reviews called "New Releases" (about 20K of data) and a link that 
shows our latest contest (2K).

The 0.91 standard is what I have based this on. The titles are all 
clickable. Flash has a limited HTML capability in its dynamic text 
fields. I need to do some work on better filtering out the entities that 
the current Flash doesn't recognize.

Ultimately, the product I am looking for is a Flash movie that can be 
put on a web site (I have banner style incarnations) and will reach to a 
location to load XML content. Flash can also export executables for Mac 
and Windows that can pull XML content down as well, for those who might 
want to check the latest without launching a web browser. (Unlikely, I 
know)

Thanks,
Jesse Shanks