Spreading Funkyness

I am a fan of json.
I use it extensively but sometimes I am forced to use xml. A pretty well know way to parse xml in Flex and Adobe air is the following:

var xml:XML = new XML(“<data><tag>content</tag></data>”);
private function parse():void {
for each (var t:XML in xml.children()) {
trace(“tag name: “+t.name()+” tag …