Yep use cdata tags, except I think you have 2 nodes there, so open and close them within each one. They basically tell flash to treat everything defined between them as html, so your symbols < and > don't mess up the xml format.
<newsitem date="8/5/2006" headline="Some headline"><![CDATA[ Body of the news article. <a href="http://www.google.com";>Google</a> More body of the article]]></newsitem> <newsitem date="8/1/2006" headline="Another headline"><![CDATA[ Body of the second article ]]></newsitem> -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoff Stearns Sent: 09 August 2006 15:22 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] HTML in XML you just need to put the html content inside a cdata tag: <newsitem date="8/5/2006" headline="Some headline"><![CDATA[ Body of the news article. <a href="http://www.google.com";>Google</a> More body of the article</newsitem> <newsitem date="8/1/2006" headline="Another headline">Body of the second article ]]></newsitem> On Aug 8, 2006, at 4:15 PM, Burns, John D wrote: > I'm having a very weird problem and I'm hoping it's something simple > that I'm overlooking. I have an xml document similar to this: > > <news> > <newsitem date="8/5/2006" headline="Some headline">Body of the news > article. <a href="http://www.google.com";>Google</a> More body of the > article</newsitem> <newsitem date="8/1/2006" headline="Another > headline">Body of the second article</newsitem> </news> > > The problem I'm having is that on the first article where the link is, > flash is seeing that as the end of the first node and then it skips to > the next one. I'm looping over the nodes in news and using this code: > > trace(newsNode.childNodes[i].firstChild.nodeValue); > > and all I would see for the first record is "Body of the news article" > and then it goes on to the next one. A client is maintaining news > through a flat xml file and wants to be able to add links. Am I > missing > something simple? Is there something else I need to do? Please help. > > John Burns > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > To change your subscription options or search the archive: > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software > Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training > http://www.figleaf.com > http://training.figleaf.com _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
