Foundation XML for Flash

Flash is Macromedia s highly popular web content creation tool, completely ubiquitous throughout the web due to the high availability of it s player plug-in for most web browsers. 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 as a data medium, be it databases, raw XML files, or more excitingly, .Net applications, web services, and Microsoft Office applications such as Excel and Word!