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**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [July 8, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-formatted-text-from-an-xml-file/56855 "2004-07-08T04:27:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:**  [@flow14](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/flow14)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-formatted-text-from-an-xml-file/56855/1 "2004-07-08T04:27:22Z")
Here’s the setup…
I’m creating a news scroller (based on files found on [actionscript-toolbox.com](http://actionscript-toolbox.com)). I’ve simplified the everything a little bit, so now each news item I create displays a headline (w/link), text (under the headline) and a date.
[Example](http://www.flow14.com/files/examples/newsXML.html)
I want the ‘text’ portion of each news item to include HTML formatted text, but I can not figure out how to do it.
I’ve tried Macromedia’s advice… \_root.newsBox.html= true;
I’ve tried the CDATA thing found in the forums.
I’ve tried a .join/.split thing I found through google (I’ve included that one in my source files).[Example](http://www.flow14.com/files/examples/join-split-ex.html)
None of the above works…what am I missing?
Here are the files I’ve been working with…
[Source Files](http://www.flow14.com/files/xml-kirupa.zip)
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 6:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-formatted-text-from-an-xml-file/56855/2 "2004-07-13T06:25:57Z")
…bump…
Anyone have any advice?
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-formatted-text-from-an-xml-file/56855/3 "2004-08-25T23:13:36Z")
> [@flow14](#):
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> …bump…
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> Anyone have any advice?
using CDATA
your tag
\116 words of the original 16th century Lipsum plus 384 \additional words\\
altered tag
\\additional words\]]\>\
inside CDATA you can use some basic html stuff , like a mailto, a hyperlink, font tags
hope this helps you out
greetz
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