# External Interface Question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-interface-question/234458>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 2, 2007, 11:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-interface-question/234458 "2007-08-02T11:15:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![dewey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@dewey](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dewey)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 11:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-interface-question/234458/1 "2007-08-02T11:15:41Z")

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Hey Guys,

I have an external interface being called with data I am getting from XML. The problem for me here is that if the data from the XML contains any quote characters ("), there is a javascript error thrown because the call looks something like

function(“title “subtitle””); and so it thinks the data is “title " and the subtitle”" is ‘bad data’.

I have tried escaping the strings, but the problem won’t go away. Any ideas?

Thanks,

–d