I love flash and I've always wanted it to be a contender for real enterprise application development rather than just relatively small scale websites (please don't shout me down - I know it's possible, but I think there are easier ways!). The one thing that has made this unrealistic for me is performance and specifically the performance of the XML parser. Does anyone know if the XML support has been improved in Flash MX? My ideal scenario would be to be able to easily call web services from flash which would be hugely helped by having some sort of efficient SOAP support in actionscript.

Does anyone have any light to shed?