# Unescape XML string?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unescape-xml-string/79942>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 18, 2005, 3:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unescape-xml-string/79942 "2005-02-18T03:02:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![MDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MDiddy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MDiddy)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 3:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unescape-xml-string/79942/1 "2005-02-18T03:02:39Z")

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Hello all,

I’m just learning some XML basics, and I’m having a small problem…

Some of my XML data includes apostrophes, quotes, etc. When I view it in my movie, Flash automatically converts the characters to url encoded. I’d like to swap them back to regular characters. I thought unescape(txt); would work, but no such luck.

Is there a special way to do this with XML data?