Craig, That's pretty messy - not well-formed XML at all. I'd search on RegEx examples and see what may already exist that you can leverage. Possibly there are scripts that can strip out all the formatting information and leave you with a bare bones table that could be converted to XML. These would be written in JavaScript most likely but you could convert to ActionScript pretty easily.
Jeff -----Original Message----- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:52 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Handling html formatted tables in Flex This is the code. it is item description XML from stock quote. <![CDATA[ <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=1 width="150"><TR><TD bgcolor="#000000"> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" class="pq_all"> <TR bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><TD WIDTH=100% ALIGN="CENTER" COLSPAN=2 nowrap><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=IBM";>IBM</a> </TD></TR> <TR bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><TD WIDTH=100% nowrap> Last </TD> <TD WIDTH=40% nowrap align=right>123.62</TD> <TR bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><TD WIDTH=100% nowrap> Change </TD> <TD WIDTH=40% nowrap align=right><font color=#FF0000>-1.56</font> </TD></TR> <TR bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><TD WIDTH=100% nowrap> % Change </TD> <TD WIDTH=40% nowrap align=right><font color=#FF0000>-1.25%</font> </TD></TR> <TR bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><TD WIDTH=100% nowrap> Volume </TD> <TD WIDTH=40% nowrap align=right>8334760 </TD></TR> <TR bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><TD WIDTH=100% nowrap> Last </TD> <TD WIDTH=40% nowrap align=right>4:00pm </TD></TR> <TR WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=1px nowrap><TD COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT=1px WIDTH=100%></TD></TR> <!--<TR bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><TD ALIGN=center colspan=3><font class="pq_tiny">PHPQuote By<br><a href="http://www.booyahmedia.com/";><font color="#555555">BooyahMedia.com</font></a></font></TD></TR>--> </TABLE> </TD></TR></TABLE> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-6885229503023534"; google_ad_width = 200; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "200x90_0ads_al"; //2007-03-15: quoterss google_ad_channel = "5439835924"; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js";> </script> ]]> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Battershall, Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Craig, > > See the note from Claus if you haven't already - he makes the > important point that if the data is in XHTML you'll be able to conver > the data into a format that could drive your datagrid very easily > without string parsing. Is that the case? > > Jeff > > -----Original Message----- > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Craig > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:40 PM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Handling html formatted tables in Flex > > > Jeff, Since you put it that way, I shall get to string parsing. I > really do appreciate your input. Craig > > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Battershall, Jeff" > <jeff.battershall@> wrote: > > > > "Too difficult"???? Having a feed that has UI embedded in it, is > > 'less > > > than optimum'. Ideally the data you'd be receiving would be in a UI > > aqgnostic format. That said, I think you'll have to get your string > > parsing skills up to snuff. You have, within Flash/Flex, a RegEx > > implementation that should help you do that. > > > > It seems a pretty large tangent to move to AIR just to solve this > > problem. I'd say its time to roll up your sleeves and learn string > > parsing. > > > > Jeff > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of Craig > > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:27 PM > > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Handling html formatted tables in Flex > > > > > > My parsed data includes <table> <tr> and <td> commands which can't > > be > > read from datagrid, (I think)... the data is embedded in these tags, > > so getting it out would be too difficult. I found AIR <mx:HTML> > > window but have to evaluate distributing app as AIR. Do you have > > comment / other suggestion? CS > > > > > > > > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Battershall, Jeff" > > <jeff.battershall@> wrote: > > > > > > Use your parsed data to create a dataprovider for a DataGrid. > > > > > > Jeff > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Behalf Of Craig > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:51 AM > > > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > > > Subject: [flexcoders] Handling html formatted tables in Flex > > > > > > > > > An RSS Feed providing quotes for my Flex application is outputting > > > an > > > HTML formatted table. I am able to parse everything out but can not > > > > display it with TextArea.htmlText as htmlText does not support > Tables. > > > > > Does anyone know of a way to display Table formatted html code > > > using Flex? There is probably an easy way to do it that I am > > > missing. 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