XML Guru?

programming flash
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Hi, i’m doing some work with MX and i’ve been working with external SWF files and i’ve also been working with trying to place XML in them…what i was wondering is
a. can you use standard HTML in XML or not
b. why when i mask the layers to make it intro does the XML text go away
c. do you know of any good tutorials showing how to make XML scroll

Thanks
Seth

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b. why when i mask the layers to make it intro does the XML text go away
dynamic text/input field can NOT be traditionally masked.
You need to
this.s.setMask(yourMaskMC);

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a. can you use standard HTML in XML or not
I interpret you want to show the xml content in a html text field and you want to add marks like <b> and <i>, but you know they can be parsed in the xml like childnodes ok?
I recomend you to escape your xml content (in flash [font=Courier New]escape(stringVariable)[/font] ) and then, when you are parsing it, just unescape it ([font=Courier New]unescape(escapedString)[/font] ) and put it on your html text field

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Thanks that helped me a lot