xml parsing and arrays

I've been seaching around for months trying to find out how to parse xml elements so that I can create html links in flash like this

<xml>
<text link="http://www.blahblah.com">This is a link</text>
<text link="http://www.blahblah.com">This is a link</text>
<text link="http://www.blahblah.com">This is a link</text>
</xml>

I don't know if I'm even writing the xml correctly...Also, I've read that trying to define which tag you're talking about like
firstchild.firstnode.nodevalue

get's really sloppy and I have to agree. I read where someone suggested using arrays, but I don't know how to parse the xml to do that and even if I did, I still wouldn't know how to tell flash which part of the array to get. Can anyone help me out, or point me in the direction I need to go?

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