[Flashcoders] DECODE XML Encoded Characters?

[Doug Coning]

Alright, what am I doing wrong?  I have tried over and over to decode an
XML string, but Flash won't decode it.  The XML is returning special
Characters (&'><) encoded.  I have tried to use escape, unescape,
encode, decode and I can't get anything to convert the encoded text to
its character representation.

Here is the node:

<ConfigParamValue>Special Characters - &amp;  &quot;  &apos;  &lt;  &gt;
</ConfigParamValue>
var str:String = String(XPath.selectNodes(MyXML_cs.getResults(),
"//ConfigParamValue/text()")[0]);
        
I've tried:
trace("A: " + escape(str));    // > Special Character - &amp;  &quot;
&apos;  &lt;  &gt;  
trace("B: " + unescape(str));  // > Special Character - &amp;  &quot;
&apos;  &lt;  &gt;  
trace("C: " + decode(str));    // >
Special%20Character%20%2D%20%26amp%3B%20%20%26quot%3B%20%20%26apos%3B%20
%20%26lt%3B%20%20%26gt%3B%20%20
trace("D: " + encode(str));    // > Special Character - &amp;  &quot;
&apos;  &lt;  &gt;  

I'd greatly appreciate if someone could let me know how to decode this
text!  Thank you!

Doug Coning
Senior Web Development Programmer
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