hyperlinks in xml data?

[alexmoloney750]

did u find a solution bytemonster ???

cheers
alex

[bytemonster]

ok, here's what I did. All the xml info is in nodes, including the url. I could never get more than 128 characters out of the html href link in the xml, so I put a button over the text box, imported the url as a variable into the getURL function and it worked fine with some tweeking. You can see the temporary results at http://micasa.bytemonster.com. I'm still working on the sections.

[XMLEvangelist]

Hi all,

In regards to the 128 character limit on links, there is a reasonably simple workaround.

In your XML, you will need to store your links seperately, and give each one a unique ID, eg:

<FILM>
  <LINKS>
    <LINK id="link1" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/TWalters/?bigString=0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 0123456789" target="_blank" />
  </LINKS>
  <TITLE>
    <font color="#0000FF">
      <a href="asfunction:openLink,link1">About Schmidt</a>
    </font>
  </TITLE>
  <CLIENT>New Line Cinema</CLIENT>
  <PROJECT>Mixing and Mastering in 5.1 & 2.0</PROJECT>
</FILM> 

Now, when you render this it will look fine, but the link won't do anything, so you need to add this magic little function to your code:

code:

---

function openLink( linkID )

{

  // assuming the XML document is 'xmlFilms'

  var xmlLinkNode = xmlFilms[ linkID ];

  getURL( xmlLinkNode.attributes.href, xmlLinkNode.attributes.target );

}

---

This works because the getURL method isn't limited by the 128 character restriction.

Let me know if you have any troubles getting this to work.

Hope this helps!

[bytemonster]

Thanks I'll give that a try and let you know how it goes.

[alexmoloney750]

could you put the fla/xml files online so i can look at the code as i want to use this for my portfolio section?

thanks
a

[Mikaq]

okay.... I have read this thread and tried to make links working with plain xml, but in vain.

My code goes like this:

<Lista>
 <DVD>
  <Ostovuosi>2003</Ostovuosi>
  <Genre>Toiminta</Genre>
  <Nimi>Testi</Nimi>
  <Region>R2</Region>
  <Arvostelu></Arvostelu>
 </DVD>
</Lista> 

Now that last element Arvostelu. I would like to include link and image on that and by clicking that image it would open review-site of that DVD.

Now I have tried for example this to make even that link working:

<Arvostelu><a href="http://whateverdvd.com">DVD</a></Arvostelu>

also this

<Arvostelu href="http://whateverdvd.com">DVD</Arvostelu> 

Nothing happens... I can't see DVD-text on that Arvostelu column.

My old design can be seen in here: DVD-list

If you view source, you can see how "messy" it is... so it would be far more easier to update my dvd-list by using xml.

any ideas how to get links working and that little review image?

Thank for advance