Look at XML.ignoreWhitespace (
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/langref/XML.html).
Also, would think you would be able to create a cdata node by doing
something like this:
var cdata:XML = new XML("<![CDATA[" + s + "]]>");
- Dan Freiman
On 9/7/07, discoguy77 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am saving some text from a string into a XML element.
> For example:
>
> var s:String = "Hello ";
> var xml:XML = <root>{s}</root>;
>
> I would like the following to happen:
> trace(xml); // prints "Hello " (without quotes)
>
> Unfortunately, E4X trims the whitespace. I would like my XML object
> to be <root><![CDATA[{s}]]></root> so that the space (maybe?)
> wouldn't be trimmed, but I cannot use a CDATA block since it occurs
> inside a <mx:Script><![CDATA[ ... ]]></mx:Script> already.
>
> Is there a way to add a CDATA block to an E4X XML object?
>
> P.S. As a workaround, I can escape() the string before adding it,
> and unescape() afterwards, but this seems ugly and loses the human-
> readability.
>
>
>
