How do I reload xml.onLoad

Yes I get what you mean, and yes I forgot to declare the scope of i in the above example. Its corrected in the attached code.
But I cant get it to work.
Could it be because the loadXmlSeries-function in your example doesnt anylonger relate to the values in xmlFile.

var xmlFile:XML
xmlFile.onLoad = function ()
{
  button0.onClick = function ()
  {
    loadXmlSeries(0);
  } 
  button1.onClick = function ()
  {
    loadXmlSeries(1);
  } 
  etc...
} 
function loadXmlSeries(seriesNumber)
{
xmlLength = this.firstChild.childNodes[seriesNumber].childNodes.length;
for (var i:Number = 0; i<xmlLength; i++) {
  Name[i] = String(this.firstChild.childNodes[seriesNumber].childNodes[i].attributes.name);
}
}
xmlSeries.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlSeries.load("series.xml");
                                              

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up the top you have declared the var as xmlFile, then down the bottom you are loading into xmlSeries

Yes, sorry about the mixup.
Ive just been using xmlFile for simplification....
But when testing the real file, its xmlSeries all the way...
So thats not the problem...

var xmlSeries:XML
xmlSeries.onLoad = function ()
{
  button0.onClick = function ()
  {
    loadXmlSeries(0);
  } 
  button1.onClick = function ()
  {
    loadXmlSeries(1);
  } 
  etc...
} 
function loadXmlSeries(seriesNumber)
{
xmlLength = this.firstChild.childNodes[seriesNumber].childNodes.length;
for (var i:Number = 0; i<xmlLength; i++) {
  Name[i] = String(this.firstChild.childNodes[seriesNumber].childNodes[i].attributes.name);
}
}
xmlSeries.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlSeries.load("series.xml");

                                              

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and have you initialised the xml var like:

var xmlSeries:XML = new XML();

of just left it as

var xmlSeries:XML;

?

Yes, exactly. The last part was left out in your example, but in my original file its still there...
var xmlSeries:XML = new XML();

Which version of AS are you using?

If you put a trace in the onload function does it return anything?

Im still on AS2
Nothing happens, when pressing the buttons. The trace-window doesnt even open.
but2.onClick = function(){
      loadxmlSeries(1);
      trace(Name[i]);
}
except if I change onClick to onRelease, then I get 'undefined' in the trace-window.

As I see it all the variables in the loadxmlSeries-function doesn't know that they should relate to the xml-holder - xmlSeries, since the onLoad-function is used to create buttons. If Im right, then how else would I make the function include the xmlSeries. Ive tried to include the button functions in the onLoad-function together wuth all the xml-variables. Without luck.

Hi there. If I may step in.

Not sure what you're ultimately trying to achieve but i'm guessing you're just trying to get the names of each series.

firstly, there's no such thing as onClick, you're correct it must be onRelease

secondly your xml format is incorrect
your child nodes are not closed

<basic>
<series>
   <serie name="John">
   <serie name="Bill">
</series>
<series>
   <serie name="Donna">
   <serie name="Susan">
</series>
</basic>

should be


<basic>
<series>
   <serie name="John"/>
   <serie name="Bill"/>
</series>
<series>
   <serie name="Donna"/>
   <serie name="Susan"/>
</series>
</basic>

thirdly, you don't need to create all those variables as once your xml is loaded, it's stored in memory.
have a look at the code below.
basically if I click button1 it returns John and Bill, and if I click button 2 it returns Donna and Susan, as per your xml code snippet.

all i'm doing is storing the particular node and then getting the number of children in that node and outputting it in a trace.

var myXML:XML = new XML();
myXML.ignoreWhite=true;
myXML.load("stuff.xml");
myXML.onLoad = function(success) {
	if (success) { 
	} else {
		trace("error loading xml");
	}
} 
function loadXMLSeries(num:Number):Void {
	var xmlNode:XMLNode = myXML.firstChild.childNodes[num];
	var numberPeopleInSeries:Number = xmlNode.childNodes.length;
	for (var i:Number = 0; i<numberPeopleInSeries; i++) {
		trace(xmlNode.childNodes[i].attributes.name);
	}
}
button1.onRelease  = function() {
	loadXMLSeries(0);
} 
button2.onRelease = function() {
	loadXMLSeries(1);
}
                                              

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Thanks.
I can see it works with trace, but when I create a small textfield to enter the names, I only get the last name of each of the two series.
If I place this instead of trace
nametxt.text = xmlNode.childNodes[i].attributes.name;
it returns Bill on button1 and Susan on button2 in the textfield

you need to append the text as each time you loop you're setting the .text property so first loop it will show John then second loop it will show Bill

if you want it to show John and Bill - where blahblah is the name of the textField.

function loadXMLSeries(num:Number):Void {
      var xmlNode:XMLNode = myXML.firstChild.childNodes[num];
      var numberPeopleInSeries:Number = xmlNode.childNodes.length;
      blahblah.text = "";
      for (var i:Number = 0; i<numberPeopleInSeries; i++) {
            trace(xmlNode.childNodes[i].attributes.name);
            blahblah.text += xmlNode.childNodes[i].attributes.name.toString() + " ";
      }
}

Thanks, but that way john and bill are just followed by donna and susan, not replaced.
John Bill Donna Susan
What Im trying to do is replacing the content of - lets just say a textfield - with the content of the new series.

Another problem is that the original Name[i]-array is used other places in complicated mathematical functions, so I kind of need the original structure inside the function,

xmlLength = this.firstChild.childNodes.childNodes.length;
for (var i:Number = 0; i<xmlLength; i++) {
  Name[i] = String(this.firstChild.childNodes.childNodes[i].attributes.name);
  Color[i] = String(this.firstChild.childNodes.childNodes[i].attributes.color);
etc...
}

as you can see I added a new variable - Color - and there are a lot more that together forms certain figures...