XML newbie question - xml into arrays

Question

I am pretty new xml and I am working with a file that has
text
associated with images in the file and I would like to move
the text
into a xml document.
I heard that a good way to deal with xml is to load it into
an array. I
have my text set up in arrays already, so my whole file
aready works in
that way. So all I have to do is load my xml document into my
arrays. I
have the xml document loading fine, but I don't know how to
get the info
into my arrays.
My xml document looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<index_content>
<image no="1">
<imgLink>"pages/collection.html"</imgLink>
<title>"Title 01"</title>
<text>"Text bla bla, bla 01, Text bla bla, bla
01"</text>
<corner>"unisex"</corner>
</image>
<image no="2">
<imgLink>"pages/collection.html"</imgLink>
<title>"Title 02"</title>
<text>"Text bla bla, bla 02, Text bla bla, bla
02"</text>
<corner>"men’s & women’s"</corner>
</image>
<image no="3">
<imgLink>"pages/collection.html"</imgLink>
<title>"Title 03"</title>
<text>"Text bla bla, bla 03, Text bla bla, bla
03"</text>
<corner>"men’s & women’s"</corner>
</image>
<image no="4">
<imgLink>"pages/collection.html"</imgLink>
<title>"Title 04"</title>
<text>"Text bla bla, bla 04, Text bla bla, bla
04"</text>
<corner>"men’s & women’s"</corner>
</image>
</index_content>
My arrays in Flash are:
var imgLinkURLs:Array = [];
var imgTitles:Array = [];
var imgTexts:Array = [];
var imgCornerLabel:Array = [];
So I think i need for loops pushing for example imgLink from
image no1
into imgLinkURLs array, then push imgLink from image no2, and
so forth.
Then do the same for imgTitle and the other arrays...
How would I do this the right way?

Answer 1

you can do it in just one loop, going through all the image
tags in index_content and for each tag fill the values of all four
arrays
for (i...) {
get the appropriate child of index_content
first_array[ i ] = value of first tag
second_array[ i ] = value of second tag
no need for multiple loops.
flash has functionality for xml files, but it helps to write
a little wrapper around it, to simplify programming, especially if
you work with xml a lot.. I wrote my for work, so I can't show it
to you, but it's not very complicated to do