Why not let flash do the work for you?
function convertEntities(p_str:String):String {
var x:XML = new XML(p_str);
x.parseXML();
return x.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue;
}
var xmlStr:String = '<item>This is the "String I want in quotes"
please help.</item>';
trace(convertEntities(xmlStr)); // This is the "String I want in quotes"
please help.
On 6/7/06, Merrill, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jim - I tried out your static class and it works great for my problem -
thanks!
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
Learning Technology Solutions
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders-
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Cheng
>>Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 6:39 PM
>>To: Flashcoders mailing list
>>Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Decoding xml text w/no CDATA allowed
>>
>>Merrill, Jason wrote:
>>
>>> Is there an Actionscript 2.0 or Xpath equivalent to Javascript and
>>> Actionscript 3.0's
>>>
>>> decode(theStringWith"Special"Characters);
>>
>>Hey Jason,
>>
>>I've run into the same issue about a month ago with XML documents that
a
>>client had generated from their database, character entities included.
>>
>>I couldn't find a built-in solution for converting the character
>>entities back into Unicode characters, so I went online, found the
>>specs, wrote a little scraper utility to grab the mappings for me and
>>then wrote a small utility class to use the data for encoding and
>>decoding. It's a simple static class with inline JavaDoc-style
>>documentation. Hope this works for you.
>>
>>You can grab it here:
>>
>> http://dev.psalterego.com/CharacterEntity.as
>>
>>
>>Regards,
>>Jim
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