Use Embed Tag to embed XML-File in Flash Professional Project in Flash Builder

Report · Aug 12, 2011

Dear Folks,

trying hardly to use embed tag to implement an XML-File.

Followed these instructions and tried it nummerous times on different places in the code:

http://dispatchevent.org/roger/embed-almost-anything-in-your-swf/

Code:

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[Embed(source="test.xml", mimeType="text/xml")]
protected const EmbeddedXML:Class;

var x:XML = XML(new EmbeddedXML());
trace(x.toXMLString()); //it should work!

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Using CS 5.5 Flash Professional Project in Flash Builder (also tried as Actionscript Project)
Found some hints about paths have to be ralative to the invoking .AS-File
Receive different errors about not allowed at this and that place

Can somebody confirm that this should work in Flash Professional project / AS3 (no Flex)

Best,

Cedric

Report · Aug 12, 2011

This works for me:

...
[Embed(source="test.xml", mimeType="application/octet-stream")]
private const EmbeddedXML:Class;
...
trace(XML(new EmbeddedXML()));

(Note the mimeType is not text/xml but application/octet-stream)