Comparing/exporting FLA files

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/开发者_StackOverflow中文版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.

As i know it was designed to dump only the Library from the Fla file. I have an upgraded version (diff_fla):

• https://sf.net/p/contools/contools/HEAD/tree/trunk/Scripts/Tools/ToolAdaptors/fla/diff_fla/

• https://github.com/andry81/contools/tree/trunk/Scripts/Tools/ToolAdaptors/fla/diff_fla

You will find 3 script files:

• FlaToXML.jsfl: xml generator, uses Adobe Flash GUI to produce xml-s.
• diff_perforce.py: python comparator, uses xml generator and compares 2 xml using p4merge tool.
• diff_perforce.bat: python comparator wrapper, invokes from the Perforce GUI application.

It works with the Adove Flash CS3.

For the details, see the README_EN.txt in the archive.

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

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

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.

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.

If you are using CS5, you can save your project in XFL format, which is XML based
More info about XFL here: http://blog.theflashblog.com/?p=1986