Comparing/exporting FLA files

Question

Is there a way of exporting an FLA file to a human-readable format, so that different revisions of a file can be compared?

I found a script for exporting to XML here (post 6): http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=155434 -- but it doesn't work as advertised - e.g. it doesn't export any details of items in the library.

Answer 1

Looks like the XFL file format may be of interest to you:

http://www.moock.org/blog/archives/000269.html

Answer 2

This isn't possible as .fla files are intended to be used exclusively through Adobe's proprietary software. To keep track of revisions, I would suggest keeping your .fla files in some kind of revision control system like svn, or git.

Answer 3

I also need this but I wasn't able to find a way to diff .fla files.

Adobe is advertising that Flash CS5 will feature XML based .fla files. We'll just have to wait it seems.