Need help XML tree i flash

[schwani]

When I retreive data from a file (demo.xml) flash interprets "\n" and TABs as a childnode.
That makes it hard for me to handle the date.
Is this a known problem?
Is ther a solution?
Or is it a "I-am-to-stupit"-problem, than please clue me?!

XML as a CGI-output is no problem, but I like to avoid writing all my xml-files in a single-Line...

[SJT]

this is a problem with Flash reading whitespace as nodes, you need to parse the white space out.
moock has written this function to do it for you:

function cutWhitespace (xmlObjectToParse) {
	for (var i = 0; i < xmlObjectToParse.childNodes.length; i++) {
		if (xmlObjectToParse.childNodes[i].nodeType == 3) {
			var j = 0;
			var empty = true;
			for (j=0; j<xmlObjectToParse.childNodes[i].nodeValue.length; j++) {
				if (xmlObjectToParse.childNodes[i].nodeValue.charCodeAt(j)>32) {
					empty = false;
				}
				break;
			}
		}
		if (empty) {
			xmlObjectToParse.childNodes[i].removeNode();
		}
		for (var k = 0; k &lt; xmlObjectToParse.childNodes.length; k++) {
			var cutSubNodes = xmlObjectToParse.childNodes[k];
			cutWhitespace(cutSubNodes);
		}
	}
}

[bcroz]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by schwani
[B]When I retreive data from a file (demo.xml) flash interprets "\n" and TABs as a childnode.
That makes it hard for me to handle the date.
Is this a known problem?

The XML DOM is defined so that whitespace _is_ important. That means it gets its own node, and all of the problems that you have mentioned. You can parse it out, or there is a property that allows you to tell certain versions of the player to ignore whitespace.