# XML Combobox issue

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-combobox-issue/329380>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 21, 2012, 5:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-combobox-issue/329380 "2012-08-21T05:08:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Valia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/77aa72/32.png) [@Valia](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Valia)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 5:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-combobox-issue/329380/1 "2012-08-21T05:08:22Z")

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Hi, I’m using xml to populate a combobox, but apostrophes and ampersands show as ’ and &. Using a replace causes the text to be undefined, and haven’t seen that there is a way to format the text to be htmlText. Any ideas? Sample xml string is below.

\<text\>It’s not working to have apostrophes & ampersand in xml.\</text\>