I started to come to the same conclusion while writing the previous post -- why use XML if you don't have to. It would probably be better just to create a serialized object directly from the database and deserialize that in Flash.
XML's always been the standard, and frankly when starting an app my mind goes there first. thanks for the advice. On 7/5/07, Ron Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For performance, if you have to parse it once you might as well convert it to objects . I do not always follow this advice and for the most part, on a reasonably modern PC it really does not matter. You do not have to use XPath. We just parse it in ActionScript in each getter as we need the info and once you have the pattern figured out, it is pretty easy. Just make sure that you have good set of Objects even if the only property is an XML structure. You can always change the methods later if you decide to parse the XML once. If you ever want/need to change a value at runtime, you will be much happier with objects. Ron
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