Help with moreover tutorial

[Akou Kamanga]

Hey all,

I'm pretty new with xml and the xmlobject.
I've tried doing the tutorial from flashkit on incorporating moreover headlines into flash with xml but no headlines appear. I'm not running this off a server so I'm assuming it should work. It just seems to stop at data loaded. Can anyone tell me if there's a mistake in the code in the tutorial.

[VAYKENT]

I haven't seem the tutorial - how about you post the code you're using??

[Akou Kamanga]

The code below is an exact copy from the tutorial.
I can't seemt to get it to work, it always stops at
Data Loaded. Thanx for the help.

//create a new xml object
urlXML = new XML();
//when the xml data has loaded, we want the XML Object to run the convertXML function
urlXML.onLoad = convertXML;
//Write to your text area that the data is loading.
content_feed_display = "Loading data...";
//now load up the url.
urlXML.load("moreover.xml");
function convertXML() {
    if(this.loaded) {
        content_feed_display = "Data loaded.";
    }
    mainTag = new XML;
    elementTag = new XML;
    articleList = new Array;
    elementList = new Array;
    mainTag = this.firstChild.nextSibling;
    if(mainTag.nodeName.toLowerCase() == "moreovernews") {
        articleList = mainTag.childNodes;
        content_feed_display = "";
        for(i=0;i<=articleList.length;i++){
            //initialize a couple of variables to hold xml data we want displayed
            document_url = "";
            headline_text = "";
            if(articleList[i].nodeName.toLowerCase() == "article") {
                //we get the child node array beneath the articles, aka the meat and potatoes we are after
                elementList = articleList[i].childNodes;
                //and loop through that looking for the data we need
                for(j=0;j<=elementList.length;j++) {
                    elementTag = elementList[j];
                    elementType = elementTag.nodeName.toLowerCase();
                    if(elementType == "headline_text"){
                    headline_text = elementTag.firstChild.nodeValue;
                    } else {
                        if(elementType == "url"){
                            url = elementTag.firstChild.nodeValue;
                        }
                    }
                }
            content_feed_display += "<p><font size=\"+2\"><a href=\"" + url + "\" target=\"_new\">"+ headline_text +"</a></font></p>";
            }
        }
    }
}

[VAYKENT]

I was thinking more of the code that you actually used in your program (not the code in the tutorial) - maybe a misstype or something... I'll look at the code you provided and let you know if I see anything - although tupps usually sees things before I do

[nerv_03]

are you using the same XML file included in the Tutorial?