Flash and XML

[Peru]

Hi!

Anybody knows what's the best way to make a "News" dynamic section. I've thougt doing it via XML, but I want to add text and images to my Flash swf every week and my client want's to do himself. The problem is that my client does´n know anything about programming (only Word or some text editor). Is it any way to make this in Word and to save it as XML? Or is it any XML editor easy to use (to add text and pics, photos, like a blog)?

Thank you in advance!

[jsebrech]

You could always load a HTML file into a textfield for the news section, and let your client edit that file with a freely available editor like NVu. Most HTML tags aren't supported, but simple text markup and images are definitely possible, and it doesn't sound like your client needs more than that.

[hooj]

If you wanted to use XML, you could design a companion page for him to edit the XML himself.

In either Flash or HTML you'd make a page with text fields where he could edit information, and when he presses save you take the variables from his text fields and write them out as a valid XML doc that you can then load and handle inside of your Flash movie.