thank you iilsley. Your suggestion to use CDATA works. However, I have a large number of these input XML files and rather than changing each one of them, I was hoping to be able to specify globally which tags should be ignored (<b>, <a>, etc) and that they could be ignored in all of the XML files.
Is there a way to do this globally? Perhaps by specifying an HTML namespace or something similar? Or is it possible to programatically tell the XML class that <text> has no child nodes, in other words to programatically force the XML class to treat the contents of <text></text> as CDATA? Thank you --- In [email protected], "iilsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > try > > <text> > <![CDATA[ > This is the text with <b>html</b> tags > ]]> > </text> > > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> , > "jamalwally" <jamalwally@> wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > I am using an external XML file to define the content for a Text > > component in Flex. The xml file has HTML tags (e.g. <b> for bold). > > > > When I assign the XML to the Text component's htmlText property, I get > > unwanted extra line breaks around the HTML tags. > > > > For example, here is the external XML file: > > > > <text> > > This is the text with <b>html</b> tags > > </text> > > > > Then in actionscript I load the XML file and create the Text component > > > > // create the XML file loader > > var xmlLoader = new URLLoader(); > > xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest(externalFilename)); > > > > // create an XML object from the file contents > > var myxml:XML = new XML(xmlLoader.data); > > > > // make the Text component > > var mytext:Text = new Text(); > > mytext.htmlText = myxml; > > > > The displayed text component has three lines of text because of > > unwanted line breaks around the HTML <b> tag: > > "This is the text with > > *html* > > tags" > > > > Instead of just one line of text as I was hoping for: > > "This is the text with *html* tags" > > > > Is there a way around this (perhaps a way to specify a set of tags > > (e.g. <b>) that should not be interpreted as XML sub-nodes of <text>? > > > > Thanks in advance > > >
