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CHAPTER 25

Data Integration: Using XML for a

Timesheet (Flash

Professional Only)

This tutorial shows you how to create an application for editing timesheet

data. The timesheet data is stored as XML within a native XML database.

The XUpdateResolver component is the best choice for this type of

application, because it generates XUpdate statements that can be sent to

the server to update the data.

You can print this tutorial by downloading a PDF version of it from the

Macromedia Flash Documentation page at www.macromedia.com/go/

fl_documentation.

In this tutorial, you will complete the following tasks:

Create the user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .278

Edit the data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

This tutorial uses a public web service and therefore requires that you have

an Internet connection. In addition, the tutorial won’t work in a browser

because of sandbox restrictions, but will work in the Flash authoring

environment or the stand-alone Flash Player.

NOTE

The use of a public web service in this tutorial does not imply that you

should use one for real-world applications. In fact, Macromedia does not

recommend using public web services directly from within any client-side

application. For more information, see “About data connectivity and

security in Flash Player” in Using Flash.