Problems getting started using Variables & Datasets

Hello,
I am new to this forum and new to scripting in Illustrator and scripting in general.
I have an XML file containing a number of datasets each consisting of a number of text variables which I want to use to create a deck of trading cards.
Each trading card consists of a Text Field for the title of the card and a number of icons, which are instances of various Symbols
I have written a script to create each card and i can load the variables into my javascript using: newCard.importVariables(new File(xmlPath));
I now need to access the data in the datasets in order to populate the card.
To provide some context, this is an image of one of the cards with placeholder art:
Currently, for the icon in the top right hand corner (the PHASE icon) I am using the following code:
phase = "night";
phaseIcon = newCard.symbols.getByName(phase);
phaseIcon1 = newCard.symbolItems.add(phaseIcon);
phaseIcon1.top = 232;
phaseIcon1.left = 140;
What i want to be able to do, is to pull the value for the <phase></phase> TextVariable from my XML dataset and insert that into the script, but I don't know how. This is where I am stuck as to how to proceed. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Nick

Thanks for posting. I can't give a reason for my choice of software and scripting language other than I *love* Illustrator and have yet to get to grips with InDesign and javascript is a language I have been trying to teach myself and am most familiar with.
I have been reading through the ExtendScript Toolkit Javascript docs and have managed to get this working:
idoc = app.activeDocument;
var wolfCardsXML = new XML ( "<wolfcards> <card> <title>Wind Through the Trees</title> <phase>dusk</phase> <fear>fear1</fear> <weather>weather1d</weather> <bonus1>pluck1</bonus1> </card> </wolfcards>" );
var currentCard = wolfCardsXML.card[0];
var phaseValue = currentCard.phase.toString();
var phaseIcon = idoc.symbols.getByName(phaseValue);
var phaseIcon1 = idoc.symbolItems.add(phaseIcon);
This works fine to read the XML data, pull the <phase> value and then use that to pull a Symbol of the same name and place it on the artboard, which is exactly what I want to be able to do. Obviously tho, I have 100+ <card> elements i want to store and loop through to produce all the cards in the deck, but it seems that new XML () will let me do this if i can just pull in the xml data from a txt file as one long text string. Could anyone please suggest a way of being able to do this? Thanks

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