RSS aggregator in Flash Based Desktop (not webpg)

[pacificdigital]

Hello everybody,

Am new here. I am in process of making a flash-based desktop application which aggregates RSS news feeds from various (customizable) websites.

Doing this with php or with support of a webpage is possible. Also some tutorials are available for the same.

I want guidelines on how to do it in flash w/o php or html support ?
I dont want the code for this, my request is for technical guidelines on how to and where to start.

Awaiting reply.

Thx

[joene]

If it works like I think it'll work, you can accomplish this without html / php.
Since RSS is just an XML file and Flash can easily read XML, I would read the external XMLfile into flash, parse the newsitems, and generate movieclips accordingly.
The only thing I'm not a 100% sure of, is whether Flash can simply connect to a remote file without running into some security issues... But I don't see any reasons why not, so let's give it a try :)