Animating with XML in Flash CS3

Animation is fundamental to Flash. It's the reason that Flash gained so much popularity in its early days. ActionScript 1 didn't have any animation support, but ActionScript 2 brought power to developers who wanted to add animation to dynamic content with the Tween object. However, ActionScript 2 had some limitations when creating externally-driven Flash movies through XML. With the introduction of ActionScript 3, animations can be driven by XML structures called Motion XML. In this week's Web Design Reference Guide, I'll show you how (relatively) easy it is to create reusable XML code for creating dynamic Flash movies.

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