Linking Dynamic text boxes?

Hi there,
This might be straight forward, but I would like to know how could one link dynamic text boxes so that the information would flow? In a way, the information would flow from:
(XML) Input A into BOXA00, BOXA01, BOXA02, BOXA03, etc.
(XML) Input B into BOXB00, BOXB01, BOXB02, BOXB03, etc.
(XML) Input C into BOXC00, BOXC01, BOXC02, , BOXC03, etc.
Any takers?

Hi i recently have made a function that can calculate the amount of text that will fit into a specified text box. See my attached file. Notice that the box will only accommodate the text in red since that is the maximum it can display.
"This here one is a very very very long long long text that cannot really fit completely into this box so we will have to cut it at some index point"
My function getTextExtent will return an object with properties
nIndex -> which determines the index at which the text will be delimited
fExceeded -> is true if the text is longer than the allocated height of the text field.

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