Getting HTML text from XML file

1

I am loading an XML file into a dynamic textfield in flash.

Is it possible to load in HTML text from the XML file… If so how??

my XML file looks like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<news>
	<entry
		date="10th Feb, 2004"
		description="First Version of site. Still Working Refining."
	/>
	<entry
		date="10th Feb, 2004"
		description="check out <a href='http://www.xotyx.com/'> Xotyx.com</a>"
	/>
</news>

Flash reads in the XML but doesnt display the second entry… So the code is not right… Here is the AS…

[AS]
// reading in XML…
var news = new XML();
news.ignoreWhite = true;
var entry = 0;
var total = 0;
var current = 0;

news.load(“news.xml”);
news.onLoad = function(success) {
_root.total = this.firstChild.childNodes.length;
if (success) {
_root.entry = _root.total - 1;
for (i=_root.total; i > 0; i–)
{
date_txt = this.firstChild.childNodes[_root.entry].attributes.date;
description_txt = this.firstChild.childNodes[_root.entry].attributes.description;

scrollerTxt = scrollerTxt + date_txt + "
" + description_txt + "

";
_root.entry–;
}
//newTxt is the instance name of they dynmic textfield.
newsTxt.htmlText = scrollerTxt;
}
};
[/AS]

2

you have to use < and > to escape the < and >.

or you could use <![CDATA[ ]]> sections, but that is a little advanced :slight_smile: