The name of an XML tag cannot include the space character. Take a look at the escape() and unescape() functions in AS3. - Gordon
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Freiman Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 8:38 AM To: flexcoders Subject: [flexcoders] Handling Special Characters in XML How do I handle whitespace (or other special characters) in the name of an XML tag. For example: "<my name/>". It seems that the XML spec suggests inserting hex symbols into the tag name. Is there any functionality in Flex that does this automatically? Daniel Freiman
