### Author:  [@andr\_in](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/andr_in)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2004, 11:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/line-breaks-for-flash-in-xml/56439/1 "2004-07-04T11:13:29Z")
sup
I have a line in xml:
\thing” /\>
obviously I cannot use \
in “someotherthing”…bcuz it parses it as a new tag or something
I tried with
too but didn’t work :-/
I need a way to have line breaks in xml attribute values… (for flash)
---
### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2004, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/line-breaks-for-flash-in-xml/56439/2 "2004-07-04T12:42:45Z")
attributes shouldn’t contain extensive data; maybe you can work around this by using a special char like “|” or “#” or whatever, and then parsing that in Flash and replace by newline…?
---
### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2004, 1:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/line-breaks-for-flash-in-xml/56439/3 "2004-07-04T13:18:46Z")
I thought of that too but if there’s a simpler way to do it with this bit of xml:
\some\
thing\ … then I’d like to hear it 😉
---
### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2004, 1:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/line-breaks-for-flash-in-xml/56439/4 "2004-07-04T13:21:56Z")
I told you on MSN, use CDATA 😉
```auto
thing]]>
```
then use _somethingNodeObject_.firstChild.nodeValue to receive some\
thing 🙂
---
### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2004, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/line-breaks-for-flash-in-xml/56439/5 "2004-07-04T13:23:49Z")
I tried… it didn’t say anywhee at w3schools that it doesn’t work with attributes :to:
thx anyway 😉
---
### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/line-breaks-for-flash-in-xml/56439/6 "2004-07-04T14:12:43Z")
Well there is allways the AS way out 🙂
use \> for \> and \< for \< in you xml file.
and decode it with AS
```auto
// functions
String.prototype.searchReplace = function(find, replace) {
return this.split(find).join(replace);
};
String.prototype.encodeTags = function () {
return this.searchReplace(">", ">").searchReplace("<", "<");
};
String.prototype.decodeTags = function () {
return this.searchReplace(">", ">").searchReplace("<", "<");
};
// end functions
test = "LOLlol";
trace(test);
test = test.encodeTags();
trace(test);
test = test.decodeTags();
trace(test);
```
🙂
---
### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2004, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/line-breaks-for-flash-in-xml/56439/7 "2004-07-04T20:43:20Z")
that’s a useful bit of code