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What I meant was that if you load the XML file as e4x you don't have to parse it into an Array to be able to use it. You can extract XMLList from the e4x syntax and use that directly in your code. You can treat the XMLList almost as you treat any Array using a for each loop for instance.
Take the code below as an example and adapt it to your needs:
var mainMenu:XMLList = this.testXML.menu;
for each(var menu:XML in mainMenu) {
trace("Menu: " + menu.@txt);
//You can use your main menu item
...
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var xml:XML = <products>
<menu txt="The Fragrance" frame="">
<item txt="Top Note" frame="topNote" ></item>
<item txt="Heart Note" frame="heartNote" ></item>
<item txt="Base Note" frame="baseNote" ></item>
</menu>
<menu txt="Points of Sale" frame="pointofsales" x="300" y="473">
<points naam="dot0" ><![CDATA[Store <font color='#464646'>NYC</font>]]></points>
<points naam="dot1" ><![CDATA[Selfridges <font color='#464646'>London</font>"]]></points>
<points naam="dot2" ><![CDATA[Bijenkorf <font color='#464646'>Amsterdam & Rotterdam</font>"]]></points>
<points naam="dot3" ><![CDATA[Galleries Lafayette <font color='#464646'>Berlin</font>"]]></points>
</menu>
</products>;
var cont:Array = new Array();
for(var i:uint = 0, menuCount:uint = xml.menu.length(); i < menuCount; i++){
var menuNode:XML = xml.menu;
var menuDataObject:Object = {txt:menuNode.@txt};
if(menuNode.attribute("frame").toString().length){
menuDataObject["frame"] = menuNode.@frame;
}
if(menuNode.attribute("x").toString().length && menuNode.attribute("y").toString().length){
menuDataObject["pof"] = {x:parseInt(menuNode.@x), y:parseInt(menuNode.@y)};
}
var menuArray:Array = [menuDataObject];
if(menuNode.children().length() > 0){
switch (menuNode.child(0).name().toString()) {
case "item":
var itemArray:Array = new Array();
for(var j:uint = 0, itemCount:uint = menuNode.item.length(); j < itemCount; j++){
var itemNode:XML = menuNode.item
itemArray.push({txt:itemNode.@txt, frame:itemNode.@frame});
}
menuArray.push(itemArray);
break;
case "points":
var pointsArray:Array = new Array();
for(var k:uint = 0, pointsCount:uint = menuNode.points.length(); k < pointsCount; k++){
var pointsNode:XML = menuNode.points
pointsArray.push({naam:pointsNode.@naam, txt:pointsNode});
}
menuArray[0]["points"] = pointsArray;
break;
}
}
cont.push(menuArray);
}
trace(cont[0][1][2].frame);
trace(cont[1][0].frame);
trace(cont[1][0].pof.y);
trace(cont[1][0].points[2].naam);
trace(cont[1][0].points[2].txt);
Traces:
baseNote
pointofsales
473
dot2
Bijenkorf <font color='#464646'>Amsterdam & Rotterdam</font>"
I believe this gives you what you want. However, and I know Rui has already suggested this, but let me tell you this approach is just WRONG. This is neither flexible nor robust. You have to modify this script of nested loops every time you change something, and it easily break - if the XML is missing an attribute, for example. People has invented E4X to avoid just this kind of XML parsing. Move on to E4X before this gets even more complex 
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