Flash :: Cdata Formatting?

CDATA - Still Not Formatting
Ok. I have searched the forum up and down and read about 6 different ways to supposedly add formatting to text through XML but nothing is working.

I have tried CDATA, I have tried URL encoding, and I have tried HTML encoding of '<''s and '>''s but still no luck. When I use CDATA around a block of text with a in it, it will just show the instead of parsing it.
I have html enabled on the text box. Did it through actionscript and then with the gui. I also tried embedding the font.
In dreamweaver it appears that the first tag is closing the CDATA tag.

Here's my XML:

Code:
<![CDATA[TORONTO - A vegetarian diet high in fibre and low in saturated fats can lower cholesterol levels as effectively as some drugs, according to a new Canadian study. The study suggests some people should forgo medication in favour of the diet to control their cholesterol.

Researchers from the University of Toronto followed 46 people in the study. The participants averaged 59 years of age, all had high blood pressure and were overweight. They were split into three groups: one group followed a special diet, dubbed the Portfolio Diet, designed by the scientists; others followed a diet low in saturated fats (beef, butter) and used the cholesterol-lowering drug lovastatin; the last group ate a low-fat diet but didn't take the drug.

Sample Diet 
Snack: Almonds, fruit, soy beverage
Dinner: Tofu bake with eggplant, onions and peppers, vegetables and pearled barley

Those on the Portfolio Diet ate foods with a lot of viscous fibre such as barley, oatmeal, okra and eggplant. The diet is based on one created by Dr. David Jenkins, known for his Garden of Eden diet plan of berries and roots. This time, Jenkins' team decided to make the diet more varied and to test the results. "This diet has got the right sort of mix of tolerability and effectiveness to suit a number of people," said Jenkins.

The team discovered:
* Those on the Portfolio Diet saw a 28.6 per cent reduction in their LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol levels just after one month;
* Those on the low fat diet with the drug achieved a 30.9 per cent reduction over the same period;
* Those just eating a low fat diet saw an eight per cent reduction.

LDL cholesterol is responsible for the fat layers that build up inside the walls of blood vessels causing hardening of the arteries and heart disease.

Researchers say there's little difference between the two groups and conclude that their diet has the same effect as the drug.

The study is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.]]>
Is there any way short of creating a function to read the string and somehow replace the Sample Diet with +"Sample Diet"+ ?

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CDATA Xml Formatting
this is my xml row and i wish to apply html formatting to info parameter at the end of line.

<marker name="Amar Yatri Niwas" address="Tourist Complex Area, Fatehabad Road," address2="Agra - 282001, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA" lat="27.160835" lng="78.033607" id="2" thumbpath="" type="hotel" category="3 Star Hotel" web="www.hotelamar.com" info="test2" />

TO

info="test <a href="test.htm">i am online</a>"

can anyone tell me how would i do that ?
i know CDATA but i tried all the way and it didnt worked so i hope someone could help me here.

plz urgent help needed.

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XML And CDATA Not Formatting As HTML Text
Last edited by yakken : 2007-12-16 at 20:37.

I have a site that uses XML to load text, pics etc. but I have a problem using the CDATA tag in my XML files and afterwards rendering the text as HTML.

The XML could be

HTML Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<events>
<event pic="largePicture.png" header="Headline" caption="Subheadline" smallpic="thumbnail.png">
<description>
<![CDATA[I would like to use HTML here Next line!]]>
</description>
</event>
</events>
Loading the XML works fine and I have everything saved in arrays (the text I need here, would be in the "descriptions" array - see below), that I can access, but when I try to throw my the <description> content into a textbox, it displays everything as it is typed above - including the tags etc. I would be setting up the text like this (taken out of context and boiled down a bit to make it easy on the eye):

ActionScript Code:
//this is the i'th element that I am loading
["mc_text"+i].descrip.html=true;
["mc_text"+i].descrip.multiline = true;
["mc_text"+i].descrip.autoSize = true;
["mc_text"+i].descrip.htmlText= descriptions[i];

where the "decrip" text field would be the one containing my text.

It does, however, not format my text as HTML (the autosize attribute works though). A direct link to one of the subpages, not showing my text properly is here: http://www.vanity.dk/oceanclub/test.swf
Pres the last button on the right...

Help is appreciated!

I can see that this guy seems to have the same troubles as I:
HTML Links in xml.
but none of the suggestions in that thread seems to do the trick

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MX2004: XPathAPI CDATA SelectSingleNode And HTML Formatting
Hello,

my subject is pretty much my problem, i am using MX2004's XPathApi 'selectSingleNode' which is working nicely, i have done a wee bit of fiddling;

Code:
_root.selectedText = "About Us "
centreMe.textContent.htmlText = mx.xpath.XPathAPI.selectSingleNode(this.firstChild, "/data/item[@name = '"+ _root.selectedText + "']/*");
I would like to be able to change the content depending on what the variable is, and this seems to work fine. The content should be formatted text (with etc...), so i am using CDATA tags to make sure no confusion is made with <>'s (and if i dont it only pulls in a small section - as expected).

Only problem is that for some reason it forgets it is a html formatted bit of CDATA and spits out the tags with the rest of the content... i have placed in "centreMe.textContent.html = true;" make sure it knows its html but it really doesnt want to know.

I tried using selectNodeList to an array and printing this - which works, without CDATA tags, but adds a really annoying "," at the end of each "array item" it is printing.

Any help would be fantastic as i have also been through an entire saga to get here trying different techniques to get html tags displaying correctly within CDATA - and i guess this is ultimately my problem?

Thanks for your time!
Løque

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edit > now i am having a really "noobie" problem (if my one above wasnt already enough)

this works;

Code:
bla.html = true;
bla.htmlText = "this is frustrating?";
but this doesnt display anything in my dynamic textbox;

Code:
bla.html = true;
bla.htmlText = " this is frustrating?";
why does actionscript hate me? its player 7 with as2

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CData And RSS
Hi...
I load the CData with

description=weatherXML.firstChild.firstChild.child Nodes[12].childNodes[6]

but when I tried to retrieve them:

weather_mc.descr.html=true
weather_mc.descr.htmlText+=description
weather_mc.descr.htmlText+="just to try <img src='http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/we/52/35.gif'/>"

the second line appera perfectly...
the first instead (description), appear as html

any guess?

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Xml & Cdata
Hi everybody,

I have a problem with filling textField from xml data

I'm using CDATA to allow html text inside the xml source (I read that everything is inside CDATA is ignored by xml parser) but i doesn't work properly. When I populate textFields in flash I still see the tags I used into CDATA. i.e. text

this is the as code I used in flash:

Code:
myxml = new XML();
myxml.ignoreWhite = true;
myxml.load("sara.xml");
myxml.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
trace("success");
process(0, 0);
}
};
process = function (i, j) {
var txt = myxml.firstChild.childNodes[i].childNodes[j].childNodes[0];
this.createTextField("testo", 11, 0, 0, 400, 300);
this.testo.html = true;
this.testo.background = true;
this.testo.backgroundColor = 0xff0000;
this.testo.wordWrap = true;
this.testo.multiline = true;
this.testo.htmlText = txt;
};
And this is the xml source:

HTML Code:
<?xml version"1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<item>
<contacts>
<a titolo="text"><![CDATA[text text text text text text]]></a>
sometext
<c titolo="text">more text</c>
</contacts>
</item>
Is there anyone who can explain me where I do wrong?

thanks a lot

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Xml Cdata
I am beginning to learn XML and I have made an image gallery with XML, I was wondering if someone could point me in the direction to learn how to have text descriptions with the photos that are loaded.

I have figured enough out to know that I can add a description in the xml as cdata. Although I can't find resources on how to display this on the photo when its loaded.

Thanks

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CDATA And XML
I have a swf that get's its content from a XML file. I need some of the content to be html so I can use italics. Here's some of my xml:

HTML Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<content>
<mainimage>images/tour_map/tour_map_main.jpg</mainimage>
<title>Tour Destinations Map</title>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Some fancy html text]]</title>
<description>A description</description>
<photo>images/banner/image1.png</photo>
<thumb>images/banner/thumb_SLE-Astronauts.jpg</thumb>
<button1text>Learn More</button1text>
<button1link>http://www.reddit.com</button1link>
<button2text>Buy Tickets</button2text>
<button2link>http://www.google.com</button2link>
</item>
<item>
<title>A title</title>
<description>A description</description>
<photo>images/banner/image2.png</photo>
<thumb>images/banner/thumb_ATX-Students.jpg</thumb>
<button1text>Learn More</button1text>
<button1link>http://www.reddit.com</button1link>
<button2text>Buy Tickets</button2text>
<button2link>http://www.google.com</button2link>
</item>
</content>
</xml>
I'm then trying to place all of this into a dictionary which works fine. Here's my XML loader stuff:

Code:
stop();
//declare variables
var xmllocation:String;

var dict:Dictionary = new Dictionary();

import flash.utils.*

//xmllocation = root.loaderInfo.parameters.fvXMLLoc;
xmllocation = "banner.xml";

//xml
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var xmlData:XML = new XML();
xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, LoadXML);
xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest(xmllocation));

var i2:uint=1
function LoadXML(e:Event):void {
xmlData = new XML(e.target.data);
var itemList:XMLList = xmlData.item;
for(var i:uint=0; i<5; i++){
dict["item"+i2+"title"] = itemList[i].title.text();
dict["item"+i2+"description"] = itemList[i].description.text();
dict["item"+i2+"photo"] = itemList[i].photo.text();
dict["item"+i2+"thumb"] = itemList[i].thumb.text();
dict["item"+i2+"button1text"] = itemList[i].button1text.text();
dict["item"+i2+"button2text"] = itemList[i].button2text.text();
dict["item"+i2+"button1link"] = itemList[i].button1link.text();
dict["item"+i2+"button2link"] = itemList[i].button2link.text();
i2++;
}
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
Problem is that I get this error:

TypeError: Error #1091: XML parser failure: Unterminated CDATA section.
at banner_fla::MainTimeline/LoadXML()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.net::URLLoader/onComplete()

What am I doing wrong?

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CDATA In XML
I am trying to place an html link in my xml document like so -

<slideshow>
<photo url="image1.jpg" caption="<![CDATA[ <A HREF='http://www.exittheonramp.com'>exitTheOnRamp]]>" </photo>

my text box in the swf allows html formating.
when i take the CDATA stuff out and just use text everything does work fine.
Am i missing a step?

Any suggestions or comments will be rad.
Thanx.

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XML CDATA In MC
Hi, there..
I need to load some CDATA txt in a dyn field.
Txt of the node is:

Code:
<Info><![CDATA[Some text text.<li>Some text is/li> ]]></Info>
Here it works work.

Code:
info.htmlText = go.childNodes[2].childNodes;
Here it won't.

Code:
mc1.info.htmlText = go.childNodes[2].childNodes;
Futher i tried:
XML FILE : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
Embed fonts/ Render txt as HTML.
Others: System.useCodepage = true;

Please some got ideas? Why it won't work in a MovieClip.

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Cdata And Xml
Are there any special things I have to do in order to get CDATA to work so I'm able to use apostrophe's with text I bring in from a mysql database?

Basically all I'm doing is making a .php file that echo xml tags and brings in the data. Then I set a CDATA tag between the xml tags where it's needed but it still brings in apostrophe's and stuff as &APOS;; when I load it into flash.

Am I missing something? Is it because I'm running it from a .php file instead of .xml?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Any Way To Get Around Having CDATA In Xml?
So i stand corrected. the <a href is screwing up my XML data.

If I plop a CDATA tag in the XML obviously it works fine. But is there any other options to keep that tag out of the XML file?

If I can somehow include it in Flash (which logically doesn't make sense) that would be great.

Any idea's? The XML is generated server side and I can't get them to mod it.

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CDATA And XML
I have a swf that get's its content from a XML file. I need some of the content to be html so I can use italics. Here's some of my xml:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<content>
<mainimage>images/tour_map/tour_map_main.jpg</mainimage>
<title>Tour Destinations Map</title>
<item>
 <title><![CDATA[Some fancy html text]]</title>
 <description>A description</description>
 <photo>images/banner/image1.png</photo>
 <thumb>images/banner/thumb_SLE-Astronauts.jpg</thumb>
 <button1text>Learn More</button1text>
 <button1link>http://www.reddit.com</button1link>
 <button2text>Buy Tickets</button2text>
 <button2link>http://www.google.com</button2link>
</item>
<item>
 <title>A title</title>
 <description>A description</description>
 <photo>images/banner/image2.png</photo>
 <thumb>images/banner/thumb_ATX-Students.jpg</thumb>
 <button1text>Learn More</button1text>
 <button1link>http://www.reddit.com</button1link>
 <button2text>Buy Tickets</button2text>
 <button2link>http://www.google.com</button2link>
</item>
</content>
</xml>

I'm then trying to place all of this into a dictionary which works fine. Here's my XML loader stuff:

Code:

stop();
//declare variables
var xmllocation:String;

var dict:Dictionary = new Dictionary();

import flash.utils.*

//xmllocation = root.loaderInfo.parameters.fvXMLLoc;
xmllocation = "banner.xml";

//xml
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var xmlData:XML = new XML();
xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, LoadXML);
xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest(xmllocation));

var i2:uint=1
function LoadXML(e:Event):void {
xmlData = new XML(e.target.data);
var itemList:XMLList = xmlData.item;
for(var i:uint=0; i<5; i++){
 dict["item"+i2+"title"] = itemList[i].title.text();
 dict["item"+i2+"description"] = itemList[i].description.text();
 dict["item"+i2+"photo"] = itemList[i].photo.text();
 dict["item"+i2+"thumb"] = itemList[i].thumb.text();
 dict["item"+i2+"button1text"] = itemList[i].button1text.text();
 dict["item"+i2+"button2text"] = itemList[i].button2text.text();
 dict["item"+i2+"button1link"] = itemList[i].button1link.text();
 dict["item"+i2+"button2link"] = itemList[i].button2link.text();
 i2++;
}
gotoAndPlay(2);
}

Problem is that I get this error:

TypeError: Error #1091: XML parser failure: Unterminated CDATA section.
at banner_fla::MainTimeline/LoadXML()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.net::URLLoader/onComplete()

What am I doing wrong?

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Xml, Css, And CDATA
ive read all the posts on this subject, but am wondering if its possible to load xml, style it with css, but instead of the html bit being in a seperate node, is it possible to have the html in an attribute? something like:
Code:

<item image=".../images/1.jpg" title="Image 1" caption="<h1>This</h1> is image 1" />

the caption bit throws an error.
anybody ever tried this?

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Output Cdata
Good afternoon everyone.

Im looking for a way to output XML Cdata nodes to my asp.

I have created a Content Management system that allows the user to format text using html tags - so far so good. However to retain the html tags i would like to save the data withing Cdata nodes.

Everytime I try to do this certain characters are escaped, and this seems to me to be a waste of time as I might as well escape the whole thing. I dont want to have to urlencode all my data before it goes into an xml node.

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Can anyone help me with this? I have an XML doc with a node that contains CDATA and when I try to put it into a dynamic HTML text field I get the whole url string rather than just the text that I want to show. What am I doing wrong?

<name><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.mylink.com">Perma Magazine Files</a>]]></name>

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Importing XML Containing CDATA...
Hi, sorry if this has been asked before, but I've searched high and low and can't find a solution.

I've got a text field that is set up to handle HTML and this works perfectly when importing from a text file or reading from a variable.. the problem occurs when I'm importing data from an XML document. The XML document contains HTML formatting in certain elements therefore I've used CDATA to contain this data correctly without affecting the XML structure. However, i've noticed when importing the data to an array, the HTML is coded as:

text goes here

instead of

text goes here

What do I need to do in order to prevent this from occuring?

Many thanks for any help!!

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XML And CDATA Question.
I am currently trying to add the function for a link to this particular project from FLASHKIT:

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Compo...2030/index.php

I am not aware of where the corresponding elements exist int hte projects structure to edit them and add the relevant code for turning the photos in the slide show into elements that can link to a URL.

Any hints or direction would be welcomed.

Thank you.

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CDATA Question In AS
Hi, I have a .xml file with several text fields.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<text1>some text1</text1>
<text2>some text2</text2>

This is my code in .fla file:

var xml:XML = new XML();
xml.ignoreWhite = true;
xml.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
var rtTxt1:XMLNode = this.firstChild;
var text1 = rtTxt1.firstChild;
//trace(text1);
var rtTxt2:XMLNode = this.firstChild.nextSibling;
var text2 = rtTxt2.firstChild;
//trace(text2);
textload(text1, text2);
};
xml.load("desc.xml");
textload = function (t1, t2) {
text1_txt.text = t1;
text2_txt.text = t2;
};

Can somebody write me in AS code that enables html text in xml file?

And I don't know how tu use a simple CDATA code. For example a basic url?

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[CS3] Read CDATA
I want flash to read the node content inside CDATA also "along with the word CDATA".... i tried all possible ways, but its only able to read the nodevalue alone. Please help !!

example if i use, firstChild.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue, it will read "Click this to continue.".. when i use firstChild.firstChild.childNodes[0] it will read everything inside <text></text> EXCEPT CDATA..... But i want this also.

Quote:

<sb:cse><text><![CDATA[Click this to continue.]]></text></sb:cse>

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I am using text from an xml file, but the CDATA isn't working like its supposed to. I first noticed this when I tried to make an email link, all text after the link was displayed. So now I put some test text in there and nothing shows up after <>.

Any Suggestions?
XML File

Code:
<menu title="Pre-Training" msg="Please select a link from the left">
<menuItem linkName="About Us">
<content linkName="I am a content page residing in branch 1" >
<![CDATA[If there is a discription the it will go here. Cdata alows me to use "',<>/ anything i want"]]>
</content>
</menuItem>

<menuItem linkName="My New Identity">
<content linkName="I am a content page residing in branch 2" url="path/to/file.pdf">
<![CDATA[If there is a discription the it will go here. Cdata alows me to use "',<>/ anything i want"]]>
</content>
</menuItem>
</menu>
AS 3 code

Code:
var docDesc_txt:TextField = new TextField();
docDesc_txt.y = docTitle_txt.y+docTitle_txt.height+5;
docDesc_txt.multiline = true;
docDesc_txt.wordWrap = true;
docDesc_txt.autoSize = "left";
docDesc_txt.width = 375;
docDesc_txt.htmlText = linkList[brachNo].content[j];
docDesc_txt.setTextFormat(docDesc_frmt);
content_mc.addChild(docDesc_txt);

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CDATA Issue
I've read the post on why CDATA with html tags are not reading formating the text, but I still can't get it to work.

code concerning the xml.

Quote:

var moduleRollOverFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat("Menu-Font", 16, 0xcccccc);
var txt:String = structure[mod-1].description.split("\n").join("
");
var popup:MovieClip = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("popup"+mod+"_mc", 11000+mod);
popup._alpha = 0;
popup._x = 524;////345; ////120
popup._y = 270;

// Create textfield
popup.createTextField("label_txt", 10, 30, 30, 425, 50);
popup.label_txt.html = true;
popup.label_txt.embedFonts = true;
popup.label_txt.autoSize = true;
popup.label_txt.wordWrap = true;
popup.label_txt.multiline = true;
popup.label_txt.selectable = true;
popup.label_txt.width = 425;
popup.label_txt.setNewTextFormat(moduleRollOverFor mat);
popup.label_txt.htmlText = txt;

XML

Quote:

Quote:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<subject>
<course title="New One>
<description><![CDATA[Make this underline. not this text. ]]></description>

</course>
</subject>

Most of the post says that my var string needs to have the nodeValue how do I do change this to look for the node value?

Quote:

var txt:String = structure[mod-1].description.split("\n").join("
");

or is it something else that I should be doing? Thanks

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CDATA And Hyperlinking
Hi--

I have read through a lot of posts and tutorials about this and feel I have a lot of 'pieces' but am not sure how to set up xml with cdata tags that function as a hyperlink in Flash. Here is my xml:

Code:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<data>
<title>demo gallery small</title>
<thumbnail base="_content/thumbnails/" />
<large base="_content/images/" />
<images id="images">
<image imagewidth='319' imageheight='169' thumbwidth='40' thumbheight='30' path='trowley-01.jpg' thumbnail='trowley_TN.jpg' date='2005-01-12 21:34:03 -0500' ranking='0'>

<item><![CDATA[This is a Flash based site for Trowley Arts.<A HREF='http://www.trowley.com'>click here to launch</A>.]]></item>

</image>

</images>

</data>
I am using 2.0 classes to parse the xml(which works fine) but I don't know how to reference the cdata tags to get to the nodeValue. Here is what I have - returns undefined:

ActionScript Code:
caption_txt.text = myxml.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

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I want to load images/urls dynamically from xml. I'm using xml CDATA but still can't load.
Also I'm attaching a movieclip and want to display the image(the one being loaded) related info in a text field in the movie clip attached to the mouse, so i can have a 'mouseover help tip' kind of effect on each image.
I don't what I'm doing wrong but it's not working Please help

my_xml = new XML();
my_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
my_xml.load("gallery.xml");
my_xml.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
for ( var i=0; i<my_xml.firstChild.childNodes.length; i++) {
url = my_xml.firstChild.childNodes[i].childNodes[1].nodeValue;
loadMovie(url, ["mc"+i]);
}
}
};
function info() {
if (mover) {
this.attachMovie("star", "pointer_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth());
//Mouse.hide();
var mouseListener:Object = new Object();
mouseListener.onMouseMove = function() {
pointer_mc._x = _xmouse+5;
pointer_mc._y = _ymouse-5;
updateAfterEvent();
};
Mouse.addListener(mouseListener);
for (var i=0; i<my_xml.firstChild.childNodes.length; i++) {
pointer_mc.myname.html = true;
pointer_mc.myname.htmlText = my_xml.firstChild.childNodes[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue;

}
} else {
this.pointer_mc.removeMovieClip();
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I am a Delphi/C++ programmer and a complete newcomer to Flash. I am in the process of writing server side components to control client side interfaces that can be either a Win32 executable, AJAX or Flex. Given this I am constraining all the server-client communications to be XML documents. The question I have is this

Would Actionscript (I may never do AJAX so it does not bother me so much) provide any methods I could use to convert WMA or PNG files provided in CDATA sections of my XML documents into binaries that I could then play/display in Flex at will?

If this is possible is there any constraint on how the file should be encoded? (Hex vs 64?)

I would much appreciate any help.

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i have an XML object, which I declare in the following way:

ActionScript Code:
var requestXmlBodyItem:String = new String();
requestXmlBodyItem = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>';
requestXmlBodyItem += '<Parent1 xmlns="urn:apis:eBLBaseComponents">';
requestXmlBodyItem += "<Child1><Child2>"+someVar+"</Child2></Child1>";
requestXmlBodyItem += "</Parent1>";
//create the XML
var requestXMLItem:XML = new XML(requestXmlBodyItem);

The variable in red ("someVar") is a string of HTML tags. After quite a bit of searching, I have found that I need to use CDATA...
my question is, how can I do this?

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ActionScript Code:
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(xml)

Code:
<text>
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Code:
<text>
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Code:
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Quote:

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_global.ContactPhone = t[1].childNodes
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[EDIT/CyanBlue]
Please use the proper code syntax to format the code.
Read this page to find out more about the tag information
[/EDIT]

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Attach Code

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Code:
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Code:
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.
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