http://www.figleaf.com/development/flash5/

The stand-alone slashdot news reader there is the Flash5 xml application I was talking about. A simple little piece of code where it loads an xml file, displays it on screen, and has a scrollbar for you to scroll the display with.

XML.load(url) loads a file external to the movie and parses the file for you.
XML.parseXML(source) takes a source variable or string and parses that for you.

Back to your original question of why the scrolling doesn't work with the XML object being sent to the text field is because you need to populate the text field with a string, and not an XML object. So use XML.toString() to get a string representation of the XML object, and send that to the text field.

-Hythian