Dynamic news page linked from XML

Question

Basically I'm able to bring HTML into my flash dynamic text
fields, that's fine.
But what I WANT to do is have an XML file load all the
seperate elements into differently formatted video clips.
I want it displayed HEADER, then DATE then CONTENT, with a
limit on articles (say 15 a page) in a scrolling content area. I've
not really played with this side of ActionSCript too much.
At the moment I have the skeleton of the idea set up, but I'm
starting to become concerned that I'm on the wrong path... I'm
kinda stuck about what to do to seperate the elements so that they
display under each other (obviously each news article will have a
variable length). An example of this idea can be seen on the NEWS
page at
http://www.wolfmother.com.
This is where I'm at atm, anyone wanna nudge me in the right
direction?

Answer 1

Yes actually you can dynamically type variables in Flash /
Flex using something similar to this.
var myDynamicObject:* = whatEverObjectIFeelLikePuttingHere;
Perhaps what might help to accomplish your goal is to use
reflection inside of Flex. It is possible to use (although somewhat
irritating) reflection in Flex using a form similar to this.
var content:Class = getClassFromPath(objectClassPath);
newComponent = new content();
addChild(newComponent);
The only problem is that the compiler will scrub any
variables/classes that are not currently being referenced, at least
once, somewhere in the application. So somewhere in your
application you must have a reference for the class, even if it set
to null, so that the class will not be removed from the project.
It's also possible that the describeType function might be of
some use.
Here are two references that describe each.
http://www.cflex.net/showfiledetails.cfm?ChannelID=1&Object=File&objectID=580
http://weblogs.thekeunster.com/?p=10
Utilizing these features it's possible to do quite a bit to
reshape your application based on data stored outside your
application or on parameters only known at runtime.