Loading from XML file instead of webservice duringdevelopment?

[chrismorrisette]

Our situation is that we have a number of flex developers creating flex
components which interact with webservices.

We have created facade classes over the webservice invocations that inject
things such as the currently authenticated users credentials, webservice
endpoint urls, etc.

During development, I would prefer for our facade classes to not actually
invoke the webservice but rather just load xml locally so that the developer
has a more simplified development experience.

I am having trouble finding out how to load XML from disk (for example:
c:\sourc repo\data.xml), is this possible? Since Flash runs in a sandbox I
assume not, but what workarounds are there? Any other suggestions?

Thanks for any help or suggestions,

[kcell]

What about httpservice to load the xml?
If you start the app from the debugger it should work (cause the debugger starts the app in a trusted sandbox ;) )

best regards
kcell