# XML or another way?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-or-another-way/284746>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 23, 2009, 9:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-or-another-way/284746 "2009-03-23T09:12:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alber\_Kidd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Alber\_Kidd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Alber_Kidd)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 9:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-or-another-way/284746/1 "2009-03-23T09:12:25Z")

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So I have extended my textfield so I can add a some text, a style, an x and y position.

var clientText:MyTextField = new MyTextField(“Client:”, “style1”, 75, 60);  
addChild(clientText);

The problem is the text is starting to get a bit long and I need a way to insert large amount of text neatly. I don’t really want to use xml I would prefer to just have it in the ide like in the attached image. However formatting it in this way gives me the error

1095: Syntax error: A string literal must be terminated before the line break.