Curing XML whitespace problems..?

[final_eternity]

Is there anything I can do to get Flash to treat whitespace normally? It is awfully annoying to write an XML document without spacing out the nodes to look nice. And when I use any sort of carriage returns or anything, I get very strange results when my XML is loaded.

Any help?

Thanks.
fe.

[tupps]

Well the easy answer (and the most common of mine) is to look at the FAQ:

http://www.tupps.com/flash/faq/xml.html

However I would also point you towards a rant that Vaykent, myself and a few others had a weeks or so ago:

http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...hreadid=263033

Basically, if you program it right you don't need to worry about the whitespace.

A great recent example of a well coded flash app to allow you to extend your XML without breaking your code is by zipface here:

http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...hreadid=267905

Have a look at the link to his included actionscript file and the function buildProductText in particular.

Code like this and you won't have to may problems.

Thanks

Luke