HTML text from XML file

[zufferguffin]

I'm pulling in text from an XML file and trying to render the text as HTML. I seem to be running into a problem. When it hits a node with HTML tags in it it get's confused and doesn't display anything.

Example:

<news_body>Here is a <a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank">website</a>!</news_body>

Anything from the link on is not displayed.

Any help would be appreciated.

[tupps]

Use a trace statement to look at what you are actually assigning to the html text box.

You haven't posted your code but I bet you are using firstChild to get the text. Well the <a href=""> is another node and appears as the second child node.

Here is a code example that shows how to extract and format html text from XML:

http://tupps.com/flash/examples/load.../demoText.html

Thanks

Luke

[zufferguffin]

Thanks a ton Tupps. That was a huge help. I was able to get it working the way needed now.