"In AS3 you should use the URLLoader class in conjunction with URLRequest and URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES as the dataFormat to read URL-encoded data. "
"This Standard defines the syntax and semantics of ECMAScript for XML (E4X), a set of programming language extensions adding native XML support to ECMAScript."
I've been using E4X in ActionScript 3.0 for a while now and the rumors of its simplicity have been greatly exaggerated. A lot of operations are easy and make sense, but others are less... obvious. E4X is essentially a whole new language which is part of