You can use the URLLoader class to load external data from a URL. The URLLoader class downloads data from a URL as text or binary data. In this section, we will see how to use the URLLoader class for loading external XML data into your application. You can create a URLLoader class instance and call the load() method by passing URLRequest as a parameter and register for its complete event to handle loaded data. The following code snippet shows how exactly this works:
private var xmlUrl:String = "http://www.foo.com/rssdata.xml";
private var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(xmlUrl);
private var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(;
private var rssData:XML;
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
loader.load(request);
private function completeHandler(event:Event):void {
rssData = XML(loader.data);
trace(rssData);
}
Let's see one quick complete sample of loading RSS data from the Internet:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application...