To clarify - & is part of the XML spec and is nothing to do with HTML. Just by coincidence, HTML has the same entity & defined.
A standards-conforming XML parser - which the Flash one is - will always translate & into & within text nodes. So when you extract the text node from the XML, any occurrence of & will already have been replaced. Same goes for < and > Ian On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Ian Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sidney - nope, the & is taken care of at XML parse time. > > You'd only have to use htmlText if the string was: > > <dep>Fin &amp; IT</dep> > > :-) > > Ian > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

