XML text problem

[nazcaline]

When you want to have linebreaks in a multiline text in AS you should write this, right?

var mytext:String="This is \nwhat \nI want";

so you have a 3-line text. ok, so i have a textfield, and its content will be loaded from a xml file. in my xml i have something like this:

<mytext>This is \nwhat \nI want</mytext>

then, when i load the file and assign that node to the .text property of my textfield it doesn't recognize the linebreaks. I had no trouble loading and working with the rest of the data. i just want to include the linebreaks in the xml, but i don't know how. i also tried casting the type of variable to string, tried using the toString() method of the xmllist and nothing.

How can i solve this? any ideas??

[moagrius]

i use cdata and normal line breaks (not "\n")

<message><![CDATA[line 1.
line 2.
line 3.]]></message> 

[nazcaline]

but that's php code, i'm not using php. it's a simple xml file in my local folder where i keep the info for the swf i'm making. is there an easier way to do this??
thanks anyway for your help, man

[Xeris2]

could it be your using a \ instead of a /?
I believe / are command line operators while \ is for say linking or something of that nature. Hence why sometimes you have to do // its to let the compiler know that you don't want the command line operator.

[moagrius]

that's not php. it's xml. try it.

[nazcaline]

moagrius:
it worked. but it worked too without cdata, i just did:

<

mytext>This is 
what 
I want</mytext>

the problem now is that the separation between the lines is just too much (with cdata or without it). i fixed it with the .leading property of the textFormat class, i had to put it at -4. isn't this weird??

[moagrius]

yeah i've noticed that too, and will use leading when it looks off - the amount depends on the font.

fyi, cdata is just used for "safe" data... it lets you used otherwise prohibitive characters (like you'd find in html), e.g.,

<message><![CDATA[line 1. 
<a href="page.html">link</a>
line 3.]]></message> 

without the cdata markers, it'd interperet the html as another xml node. when writing xml dynamically, i tend to always use it just in case - but you're right, for simple text like you have it's not necessary.