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Hi,
I’m bringing in some XML from a PHP generated page. unfortunately they PHP generates the XML as follows:

<moreInfo><b>Abstract Painting</b><br />1963<br />170.00 x 215.00
 cm<br />Oil on canvas<</moreInfo> 

Rather than processing and reading the data as HTML, flash will print this out as html:

<b>Abstract Painting</b><br />1963<br />170.00 x 215.00 cm<br />Oil on canvas<br /> 

I’m using AS2, a HTML enabled text field and i’ve tried the unescape/escape function. It looks like unescape will only work on hexadecimal data.

Any ideas on how to get flash to read this as html?

Cheers,
Luke.

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chrismann
1  
chrismann

Edited (I found a possible solution)

Here’s a test I ran

var m:String= "<items><one>plain</one><two><![CDATA[this is <i>italic</i>]]></two></items>";
var my_xml:XML = new XML(m);
trace("using firstChild:");
for (var i = 0; i<my_xml.firstChild.childNodes.length; i++) {
    trace("\t"+my_xml.firstChild.childNodes[i].firstChild);
}
trace("");
trace("using firstChild.nodeValue:");
for (var i = 0; i<my_xml.firstChild.childNodes.length; i++) {
    trace("\t"+my_xml.firstChild.childNodes[i].firstChild.nodeValue);
} 

Output is

using firstChild:
    plain
    this is <i>italic</i>

using firstChild.nodeValue:
    plain
    this is <i>italic</i> 
  • 25 March 2009 03:54 PM
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tiran
2  
tiran

As you found out, the problem is not how PHP interprets the page, its how Flash does. Take a look at your raw php generated XML in a browser and you will not see those characters. nodeValue is the solution you are looking for.

  • 25 March 2009 04:23 PM
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Luke-F Author 
3  
Luke-F

Thanks for your help, this is looking good. It’s returning “null” at the moment. Can you figure out what’s happening? Here’s what I’ve got:


AS2

[AS]moreInfoTxt.htmlText = mainNode.childNodes[moreInformation].childNodes[0].nodeValue[/AS]


XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<songs>
    <song trackTitle="track tite1">  
        <moreInfo><![CDATA[ <b>Abstract Painting</b><
br />1963<br />170.00 x 215.00 cm<br />Oil on canvas<
br />Catalogue Raisonné: 144<br />Collection: K21 Kunstsammlung, 
Düsseldorf, Germany<br />Audio courtesy of <u><
a href='http://:www.acoustiguide.com' target='_blank'>
Acoustiguide</a></u>]]></moreInfo>
    </song>
</songs> 

(I’ve broken the xml apart so the forum page holds together)

  • 26 March 2009 06:52 AM
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Luke-F Author 
4  
Luke-F

Hi,
All fixed! Thanks for your help. I out that i was declaring a var that messed with it. Basically, nodeValue worked a treat.

Thanks UShock team.


full solution:
mainNode.childNodes[moreInformation].childNodes[0].nodeValue.split(”<”).join(”<”).split(”>”).join(”>”);

  • 26 March 2009 12:05 PM
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