Xml in Flash

"This book is an exceptional training manual to bring a web developer or flash designer with scripting skills into an entirely new world of coding." --Christopher Ian Smith, XML Developer, RespondTV.com "This is a 'must-read' for any Flash developer." --John Paul Rawlins, Editor FlashNewz.com "Flash and XML shows designers and developers how to integrate these powerful technologies and create dynamic web sites. With this thoroughly readable guide you take Flash to the next level, interfacing ActionScript with XML. Empower your Flash projects with dynamic content, backend databases, server-based applications, peer-to-peer, and more. "Flash and XML is a tutorial that brings you up to speed on both technologies, offering clear and concise explanations. In addition, this book presents a number of important web technologies, including PHP, MySQL, and sockets. It shows how to work with these technologies to create n-tier, interactive systems that access the full resources of the Internet. Sample projects (trivia game, XML browser, simple chat) showcase the capabilities of Flash and XML together and demonstrate important concepts, approaches, and techniques. The companion web site at http: //www.FlashandXML.com contains all of the source code referenced in the book, as well as updates, discussion groups, and links to other resources. Containing plentiful examples, experience-based techniques, and just enough theory, "Flash and XML is a one-stop sourcebook that will guide you in the development of web sites that are not only animated, interactive, and powerful, but extremely useful as well.

Flash is Macromedia's highly popular web content creation tool. XML is a completely platform agnostic data medium. Flash is able to make use of XML data, which is very useful when you are creating Rich Internet Applications ? it allows you to populate Flash web interfaces with data from pretty much any source that supports XML such as Excel and Word! This book is likely to be very big because of the Microsoft connection ? MS Office is ubiquitous throughout the world of IT, and many companies want to be able to easily port their data from Office files to web interfaces. Microsoft is also very keen to get in on the Rich Internet Applications craze that Flash is such a big part of. In this book, Sas Jacobs first takes the reader through just the information they need to know about XML itself, and no more ? what it is, it's syntax, it's associated technologies (such as CSS and XSLT, ) and how to get XML out of your applications in a format Flash can use.