& Hell!

[r2dtwo]

All I need to do is create a text node without the character '&' being written as '&'!

I know that Flash automatically encodes several characters to their HTML equivalant, but I don't need it to...

Anyone?

[tupps]

I don't beleive that an ampersand by itself in the XML is valid (not 100% sure).

Where are you having problems with this, if it is displaying data in flash then flash has an encode and unencode functions that will sort this out.

Thanks

Luke

[r2dtwo]

Thanks Tupps...

Basically I am trying to write the '&' into a textNode of an XML object that I am dynamically generating.

I am writing a Flash app that forms a WISIWIG editor as part of a content management system...

I have an engine that 'parses' a string and builds an XML document from it.

I have had no end of problems with special characters, as the XML is displayed in a website that uses UTF-8 encoding, the only character that I really needed to appear as it should was an ampersand, from here I could then encode like so '$' = '#' etc etc

This is all because Flash doesn't support the construction of CDATA in textNodes.

To get around this problem I have had to create my special characters as nodes with an id attribute that I then unencode using the server side XSLT.

Therefore my XML looks something like this...

[CODE]{paragraph}This is an {SpChr id="#0038;"/} ampersand{/paragraph}[CODE]

Not the prettiest of XML pages but it seems to work.

When are Macromedia going to expand the XML object in Flash to include CDATA support?x

[tupps]

I am not sure about the expansion of the XML system in flash. It has pretty much remained stable since flash 5. The main thing that changed was the speed but that was due to internal changes in the text processing system of Flash MX which flowed into the XML nodes.

I have a feeling that the XML support might stay where it is in case it draws people away from there high server offerings. At present apart from a few little bugs the XML is pretty good system.