i'll usually put output text content in html with a css file in CDATA tags. Anything that describes that content goes into attributes - like jason says, it uses the xml in the most efficient way.
i also will use the sorting abilities of xml and xml list (myxml.nodesToSearch.(@attributeToFind == "searchText") is a revelation) sort to manipulate the data and instantiate classes to hold that data "He's working off of a very shallow and glib understanding of things, thus it's a recurring issue where he comes to the list and asks for help whenever he hits a wall." /agree but to a point - i think we've all come across situations when we were starting off that simply didn't make sense and resources like flashcoders are an excellent way of helping us to understand. That said, the 12,000 lines of python code that you may have written several years ago doesn't mean that you can 'do' actionscript without bothering to read a book first a On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Alexander Farber <[email protected] > wrote: > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Cor <[email protected]> wrote: > > I always use <![CDATA[My text]]> in xml. > > Is that a bad habbit? > > Not good for my app - if the user enters ]]> and then some XML > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

