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<root>

 <ogroup typing=”ifs.ifs3D.Camera” arrayName=”camArray” >
  <ent camPos=”200,200,800? camTar=”0,0,0? camRot=”0,0,0? fov=”90? focus=”100? name=”maincam” />
 </ogroup>

</root>

function loadObjectArrays(input:XML, output):void {

   var countArrays:Number;
   var countObjects:Number;
   var ogroups:Number;

   // creating array
   var tempArray:Array = new Array();

   // ogroups loop
   for each (var property:XML in input.ogroup) {

    var objectTyping:String = property.@typing;
    var arrayName:String = property.@arrayName;

    // if inserting successfull
    if (output.hasOwnProperty(arrayName)) {
    
     // instancing blank array
     output[arrayName] = new Array();
     
     // object loading loop
     for each (var entry:XML in property.ent) {

        var tmpClass:Object = getDefinitionByName(objectTyping);
        
        var tempObj:Object = new tmpClass();
        
        // checking if class has particular properties and if it has, applying values from XML
        if (tempObj.hasOwnProperty(”iParent”)) {
         tempObj.iParent = output;
        }
        if (tempObj.hasOwnProperty(”fromXMLentry”)) {
         tempObj.fromXMLentry(entry);
        }
        
        output[arrayName].push(tempObj);
      }
     }
     // object loading loop end

   }
}