Parsing HTML within Text Loaded via an XML File

programming flash
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Hello Kirup-gurus,

I am loading in a bunch of text (and other data) from an XML file into Dynamic Text Fields on my stage via an XML.load call. Below is one example of one entry of my XML file:

 
<stillDescriptions>
<text>Mack Trucks of North America came to us to help them create marketing materials for their MP7 Diesel Engine.
</text>
</stillDescriptions>

I would like to be able to create HTML links within these strings between the tags that I have in my XML file so that a user could click on the link that is inserted into the dynamic text field.

I can’t get this to work. If I place typical HTML tags within my XML-tagged strings, it does not get parsed as HTML. Like this, this doesn’t work – text string gets truncated after hitting the first HTML tag. Makes sense since it may be expecting XML tags instead of HTML tags?

 
<stillDescriptions>
<text>Mack Trucks of North America came to us to help them create marketing <a href = www.blah.blah>materials</a> for their MP7 Diesel Engine.
</text>
</stillDescriptions>

Is there a trick to doing this, or is it not possible?

Any info would be most appreciated.

Thanks and good day,

-john

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http://www.macromedia.com/livedocs/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00001456.html