Gnash 0.8.7 comes with memory optimized XML parsing and much improved compatibility.

The XML and XMLNode classes in ActionScript 2 enable parsing and handling of XML trees. Mostly they are used for configuration data or bits of dynamically loaded content. But sometimes - one example is openstreetmap.org's "potlatch" editor - the XML can have thousands of nodes.

Even a simple XML tree with so many nodes has significant memory requirements. We have to store not only the node type, node value and, if appropriate, the node content and attributes, but also links to parent and child nodes.