Hi

I'm completely new to jQuery and Javascript but I have extensive (10+ years) with Flash and Actionscript.

I want to create a dyanmic tree menu, but I wonder what is the best way to get the data from a MySql database.

Honestly, compared to AS3, the implementation of XML seems very primitive... In As3 you simply move around the xml as if those were objects using E4X. This way: MyXML.myNode.myChild[3].text()

So I wonder, what is the best way to work with data from the DDBB? Is there a better way of using XML with jQuery? Maybe JSON?

How should I approach this?

TIA