how to parse xml with string path

okay,

so I have been making a very slow--VERY SLOW--conversion to AS3.  Mostly because my job duties changed for a bit and i was doing more design work than programming.  But here I am again back at the programming side of things. YEA!

My Point:

I am trying to write my xml loader as reusable object in itself.  So that when another object that relies on xml data is loaded it just simply calls my xml object and then goes from there.  I have attached my code below, but this does not work--completely.  it shows the path but still tells me code no joy! in the out put window.  any ideas what i am missing / doing wrong?

Thanks for your help in advance.

-Frankie

package {
	import flash.display.Loader;
	import flash.display.MovieClip;
	import flash.events.*;
	import flash.net.URLLoader;
	import flash.net.URLRequest;
	import flash.xml.*;

	public class XMLEngine extends MovieClip {
		public var xmlPath:String;
		private var theXML:XML;
		private var loader:URLLoader;
		public function XMLEngine() {
			//constructor
		}
		private function loadXML(request):void {
			var loader:URLLoader=new URLLoader();
			loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,completeHandler);
			try {
				loader.load(request);
			} catch (error:Error) {
				trace('we have code no joy!');
			}
		}
		private function completeHandler(e:Event) {
			var loader:URLLoader=URLLoader(e.target);
			var result:XML=new XML(loader.data);
			var myXML:XMLDocument=new XMLDocument();
			myXML.ignoreWhite=true;
			myXML.parseXML(result.toXMLString());
		}
		public function getPath(urlPath:String) {
			if (urlPath) {
				xmlPath=urlPath;
				trace("theXML.load("+xmlPath+")");
				loadXML(xmlPath);
			}
		}
	}
}

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