If the number is being put into the field manually then why not use a simple text file to hold the information.
Create a file books.txt
fiction=233&
&nonfiction=143&
Then create dynamyc fields in your Flash movie with variable assignments of fiction and nonfiction.
Flash action script in first fram of movie would be:
loadVariables ("books.txt","");
I would only use the XML option in a case where the actual titles and information were in the XML file and you got the number by counting the children contained in a particular node(ie: fiction).
You would then be able to retrieve information about each title from the XML file.
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