>>I think you just need to set the Dynamic text field to render HTML in
>>the properties panel - its the button that looks like "<>". I have xml
>>that has ""Special"" and it works fine
Actually, this original thread (almost two months old now) was about
character entities in XML related to the xfactorstudio's Xpath classes -
rather different subject than character entities in HTML from XML text.
The solution I reached with the help of this list was to use a trick
with the XML class:
function decodeEntities(entityString:String):String {
var x:XML = new XML("<n>"+entityString+"</n>");
x.parseXML();
return x.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue;
};
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
Learning & Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders-
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carl Welch
>>Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 4:17 AM
>>To: Flashcoders mailing list
>>Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Decoding xml text w/no CDATA allowed
>>
>>I think you just need to set the Dynamic text field to render HTML in
>>the properties panel - its the button that looks like "<>". I have xml
>>that has ""Special"" and it works fine.
>>
>>On 7/26/06, Toon Van de Putte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> That does appear to be the case, i tried the following:
>>>
>>> textfield.htmlText = currentPand.firstChild;
>>>
>>> which shows '<b>this is bold</b>' instead of bold text
>>>
>>> On the other hand, this:
>>>
>>> textfield.htmlText = currentPand.firstChild.nodeValue;
>>>
>>> Shows the text in bold, as would be expected. So i suppose using
nodeValue
>>> automatically decodes the entities.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/7/06, Merrill, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Thanks Ryan, that's what I was looking for. So this must be a
failing
>>> > of XFactorstudio's Xpath classes - and Flash's xml.parseXML() or
>>> > nodeValue does the decoding automatically? Or does anyone know a
way to
>>> > get Xfactorstudios Xpath classes to decode entities?
>>> >
>>> > Jason Merrill
>>> > Bank of America
>>> > Learning Technology Solutions
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > >>-----Original Message-----
>>> > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:flashcoders-
>>> > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan Matsikas
>>> > >>Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 11:30 AM
>>> > >>To: Flashcoders mailing list
>>> > >>Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Decoding xml text w/no CDATA allowed
>>> > >>
>>> > >>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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