Load xml data into a flash array

[Nasiapostol]

Hallo.

I have 3 movie clips (cont1,cont2,cont3) on my stage, each movieclip contains a dynamic text field (name) and another movieclip (image).

example:
<people>
<student><name>sara</name><image>image1.jpg</image></student>
<student><name>manju</name><age>image2.jpg</image></student>
<student><name>sind</name><age>image3.jpg</image></student>
</people>

I would like to load the data from an xml file into those 3 movieclips so that
the first movie clip contains data from the first student xml line code (name=sara, image=image1.jpg). The second movie clip from the second one and so on.


I suppose in order to accomplish what I want I have to convert the xml data into an array.. correct?
If there is another approach please feel free to comment.

Can anyone please help me with my project?
Any reference or links will be deeply appreciated.
Thanks.

[a_modified_dog]

names = [];
images = [];

_xml = new XML();
_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
_xml.load("people.xml");

_xml.onLoad = function(){
nodes = this.firstChild.childNodes;
len = nodes.length;
for(var n=0;n!=len;n++){
names[n] = nodes[n].firstChild.childNodes.toString();
images[n] = nodes[n].firstChild.nextSibling.childNodes.toString();
}
};

/* this produces two arrays -

Variable _level0.names = [object #1, class 'Array'] [
    0:"sara",
    1:"manju",
    2:"sind"
  ]
Variable _level0.images = [object #2, class 'Array'] [
    0:"image1.jpg",
    1:"image2.jpg",
    2:"image3.jpg"
  ]
*/ 

<people>
<student>
<name>sara</name>
<image>image1.jpg</image>
</student>
<student>
<name>manju</name>
<image>image2.jpg</image>
</student>
<student>
<name>sind</name>
<image>image3.jpg</image>
</student>
</people> 

[Nasiapostol]

Thanks a lot for your help!
It works perfectly fine .