flash data integration: I am trying to build a page where the user can select a syle of food (i.e.
chinese, italian etc) from a combo. I would then want the relevent restaurants
to be displayed, possibly in a DataGrid. Is this easily do able like this?
Would i need more than 1 XML file.

There is a tutorial on this forum that could really help you, try this:

what if you dont have a dynamic source to pull the data from.. what if you
have 2 static XML files and you need to pull the businesses for a selected
catagory out of the static XML files.. is that possible?

I managed to create a combo box that lets the user choose the style of food,
which then display all the relevent restaurants details. I used just one static
XML file for this.

check it out

www.yourbirmingham.co.uk/restaurants.htm

How were able to do that. I am a noob and all i have been able to do is use the
xmlconnector to populate a datagrid. I want ot be able to select data from the
combo box or datagrid to populate a text area like you did

First off I created 1 XML file that contains all of the info I wish to display.
It also includes a node for the type of resturant.

I then pretty much followed a tutorial:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/xmlconnector.html

Let me know how you get on.