How To Use Xml Data To Geturl

[zervell]

I know alot of people have had the problem of linking there xml file from an outside source. My problem is that I want to us xml to dynamically set up links to foreign addresses(as in not local;i.e bob.com/bob.jgp and bob.com/bob2.jgp)like www.yahoo.com ect.

my flash code is simple, it loads the xml file, reads the location of the url with in the xml file. there is no real error persay in the code but more of a problem with the flash security.

var my_xml = new XML();
my_xml.load("cvb.xml");
my_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
var loaded_status:Boolean = false;
var percent:Number = 0;
var url:String;
function onEnterFrame() {
    loadbar._xscale = percent;
    load_xml();
    if (percent == 100) {
        button_xml_hyperlink(_button1);
        //trace(my_xml.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue);//town name
        //trace(my_xml.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue);//description
        //trace(my_xml.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[2].firstChild.nodeValue);//url
    }
}
function load_xml() {
    if (loaded_status == false) {
        myxml_total = my_xml.getBytesTotal();
        myxml_loaded = my_xml.getBytesLoaded();
        percent = (myxml_loaded/myxml_total)*100;
        if (percent == 100) {
            url = my_xml.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[2].firstChild.nodeValue;
            loaded_status = true;
            delete this;
        }
    }
}
function button_xml_hyperlink(_button_name) {
    _button_name.onRelease = function() {
        loadMovie(url, hero2);
        getURL(url, "_blank");
    };
} 

this is my xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<state>
    <town>
        <townname>Huntington</townname>
        <description>Huntington, is cool!</description>    
        <url><![CDATA[http://www.yahoo.com/index.html]]></url>
    </town>
    <town>
        <townname>Bob Land</townname>
        <description>Bob Land, has the largest people in the world.</description>    
        <url>http://www.google.com</url>
    </town>    
</state>

in a nutshell i want to know what i need to do to get this working. thank you in advanced

[Chris_Seahorn]

Seems to work here without a security error.....no?

http://actionscript.hobby-site.com/examples/zervel.html

[zervell]

you made it read the link from the xml file? if you used my code what did you do differently. It looks as if you took the data from the xml file and displayed it in a textfield and did a code something like getURL(textfield.text) is that what you did?

[Chris_Seahorn]

that is your code. All I did was put a textfield onstage with a variable name of (url) so you could see what node it was pulling. Otherwise it's your pasted.

[zervell]

you did change something. by the way i need a friend like you the way you write code is unmatched, not to toot your horn. I looked at the code you've redone and I found that when I put the full URL address like you did, I don't get the security problems. when I would write the xml file as an in house file any address outside my site was a problem. so you did change something. thanks alot I wish you put the code out in the first place, thank you. while I have your ear (so to speak), i what 'return' dose?