Actionscript 3 handles xmls very well, there’s no need any longer to use special classes as for instance XMLSA which we all used for AS2. Here what we need to do:
import flash.net.URLLoader; import flash.events.Event; import flash.net.URLRequest; var ld = new URLLoader(); ld.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,xml_loaded); ld.load(new URLRequest("menu.xml")); function xml_loaded(e) { xml = new XML(e.currentTarget.data); trace(xml); }