Loading text by XML

Hi:
I am very new to XML so I would like to know if someone could
help me, this should be very simple. I have a textbox in my flash
movie that will display the main text (only a short paragraph); my
client wants that text to be loaded by XML but I do not know how to
do that because these are my very first steps with XML.
Any help, sample file or recommendation will be appreciated.
Greetings from Argentina.

var my_xml:XML = new XML()
my_xml.ignoreWhite = true
my_xml.load("yourtext.xml")
my_xml.onLoad = function(success) {
if(success) {
parseXML(this)
function parseXML(xml) {
my_xml = xml
textvalue =
my_xml.firstChild.childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
my_txt.text = textvalue
trace(textvalue);
=============
this is xml
<Dataset>
<text id="1">this is your text</text>
</Dataset>

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