Yeah, I plan on releasing an XML loader, which afterward I'll merge with this tutorial to show how to do it more professionally, then I'll release an XML + base64 Tiled loader.

As for objects and other attribute reading, that will probably come as a last tutorial, or maybe I'll throw it in with the general XML reading tutorial. I think in most future tutorials or examples, I'll just list this article as "required reading" to avoid trying to explain a lot of stuff again, but they'll probably be different enough to require a lot of explanation anyway.

I'll have another one up by next weekend, at the least. School's a killer