Maybe I misunderstood your last post, but I am getting an XML field from a HTTPservice call with resultformat e4x and this XML field has HTML content wrapped in a CDATA tag. I bound this XML field to a regular text control's html property and it renders as HTML not as text....
--- In [email protected], Ben Marchbanks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wrapping the text in <![CDATA causes the CDATA to > be interpreted literally and rendered along with > the text. > > setting the resultFormat to text makes it much > more difficult to handle the text and distribute > it to the appropriate display objects. > > Barring any easier solutions at this point it > looks like stripping out the white space with AS > is the only option. > > > iko_knyphausen wrote: > > Have you tried using CDATA around your text when retrieving from your > > database? > > > > <![CDATA[ > > > > .... > > > > ]]> > > > > I use it to store HTML formatted text in a database and to retrieve it > > back into any HTML capable control, such as rtfedit or textarea... even > > a simple TEXT control as itemrenderer works with this method... > > > > HTH > > > > Iko > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "pdflibpilot" flex@ wrote: > >> I am trying to develop a method to allow web administrators to be able > >> to edit text in their Flex application directly in the UI (without > >> Flex). This text gets saved to mySQL when they close the rich text > >> editor. > >> > >> The data is stored correctly in mySQL however when its retrieved it > >> gets formated as an XML object when extracted from the event.result. > >> > >> While this makes it easy to populate the various labels and text > >> objects with the rich text data. The problem is that the rich text > >> data gets formatted as XML with new lines and indents. Like in this > >> dmup............ > >> > >> <contentLive> > >> <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"> > >> <P ALIGN="CENTER"> > >> <FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="14" COLOR="#FFFFFF" LETTERSPACING="0" > >> KERNING="0"> > >> <B>This is </B> > >> <FONT COLOR="#0033FF"> > >> <B> > >> <U>live content</U> > >> </B> > >> </FONT> > >> </FONT> > >> </P> > >> </TEXTFORMAT> > >> </contentLive> > >> > >> How can I force it to treat it as raw text just like its stored in > >> mySQL without the formatting ? > >> > > > > > > >
