AS3 Using variable from one function in another - not working?

Because ActionScript is asyncronous as others have said, you cannot control the flow of execution by code placement. What you must do is control execution through the events, and so whatever actions you want to perform with the loaded XML should be in the processXML function or in another function that is called from processXML.

You should declare your XML variable outside your function in order to be able to use it in another function.

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