I'd consider doing something like this: public static const PHONES:XML = <phones> <contact n="1234567890"/> <affiliate n="0987654321"/> </phones>;
Les writing, less processing and you can even let the bookkeeper do the work (instead of having the XML coded in the file, you could embed it for example) [Embed(source="phones.xml")] public static const PHONES:String; Best. Oleg