Also note that the curly braces go *outside* the quotes - if you were
putting the number 7 in your attribute, it would be
<element attr={7}/>
If you do this:
<element attr="{7}"/>
Then your attribute will have the value of "{7}" instead of "7".
-Josh
2009/3/17 Josh McDonald <[email protected]>
> The (xml source code) -> XML|XMLList stage in MXMLC isn't so good. Often I
> need to embed XML as Binary objects, and go via String to parse it.
>
> That's not much useful information though, so the answer to your problem
> is:
>
> <mx:XMLList id="testXml">
> <sample badattribute={"ABC"}>
>
> <test name="1"/>
> <test name="2"/>
> </sample>
> <mx:XMLList>
> Note that despite the similar syntax I don't think these expressions are
> updated when input changes the same way bindings are. They *might* be when
> you're using .MXML, but the same syntax can be used to mix XML literals and
> ActionScript expressions in .as files.
>
> -Josh
>
> 2009/3/17 markdemich <[email protected]>
>
> I have some embbeded XML inside an MXML file that I'm feeding to an
>> outline. Some of my attributes need to have a quote character. It looks
>> something like this
>>
>> <mx:XMLList id="testXml">
>> <sample badattribute=""ABC"">
>> <test name="1"/>
>> <test name="2"/>
>> </sample>
>> <mx:XMLList>
>>
>> This refuses to compile.
>>
>> I even ran a test where I omitted, the badattribute from the xml and then
>> in the code I did something like this,
>>
>> testx...@test = '"ABC"';
>> trace(textXml.toXMLString())
>>
>> and it printed it out correctly using " as the quote character.
>>
>> Does anyone have a clue as to what's going on?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee."
>
> Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald
> - [email protected]
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>
>
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