Teach Yourself Visually™ Flash® CS4 Professional

You can create data files in the XML format

using a text editor like TextMate or TextEdit

(Mac) or NotePad or WordPad (Windows).

Be sure to save your XML file as plain text,

to avoid file formatting issues.

1 Open a text editor from your

programs or applications.

Note: You can use Notepad on Windows, and

TextEdit on OS X.

2 Click File.

3 Click New.

A new document opens.

Create an XML File

Create an

XML File

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4 Type <?xml version=”1.0”

encoding=”UTF-8”?>.

5 Create an opening tag named

beatles by typing <beatles>.

6 Create a closing tag named

beatles by typing

</beatles>.

XML is composed of opening tags and closing tags, or tag pairs.

For example,

<address> is an ...