Displaying Content in Flex - Best Practice

I'm curious as to people's thoughts for the best methods to
display content in Flex. In particular, I'm creating a UI and want
one of the first panels that is displayed to the user to display
some simple instructions on how to use the UI. Should I import HTML
from an external file? Should I embed XML or HTML in the SWF? Or,
should I simply code the content into the SWF? I want the content
to be styled like the rest of my application - fonts, colors, etc.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

You can embed the content in the swf (unless you want it to
change).
Then you can style it using standard css.
This way the resulting application is modular, and if you
change the css in the future, changes are reflected in all your
styled components.
More here:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/1/flex_builder_en/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?con text=Using_Flex_Builder&file=brady510.htm

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