Larry Levenson wrote: > I need to come up with a rolling Flash banner that is XML-powered. > The data would be date sensitive, and the Flash would re-build itself > every day. MySQL-to-XML is easy. . . anyone have a simple way to feed > this XML into a Flash movie? Text only. There's a bunch of pre-built utilities available, discoverable under the following search term: http://www.google.com/search?q=flash+%28banner+OR+ticker%29+XML (The SWF file wouldn't need to "rebuild itself each day"... the same SWF can call out to an XML file at any time, parse its data, and integrate it into the display.) One detail: The SWF and the XML would either need to be in the same domain (to prevent snooping around behind firewalls), or your data server would need a "policy file" to let it know that it's acceptable for your remote SWF to request this data. More info: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=Flash_MX_2004&file=00001097.html http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14213 jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.