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Actionscript stripping whitespace when it shouldn't

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Probably the whitespace trimming is taking place at compile time, not run time (hence the ineffectiveness of XML.IgnoreWhitespace).

To have the XML preserved verbatim until runtime (like it was when you were loading it before), just put it into a string:

var internalXML:XML = XML("<Content><P>It was in <City>Paris</City> that I first took a <Activity>walk in nature</Activity>.</P></Content>")

Cameron 2010-01-22 20:58:02

Excellent suggestion, thank you Cameron. In the meantime I found a simpler solution which I imagine accomplishes the same thing. I had XML.ignoreWhitespace = false inside a handler in my main class. I moved it outside of the class and put it just after the import statements. Now it works.If the ignoreWhitespace is a static property, why would it matter where it's declared? More generally, how do you know what's done at compile time and what's done at runtime?

David 2010-01-24 16:37:29

Since ignoreWhitespace is a static property, it should not matter where it is set (although sometimes there are odd bugs in Flash). Perhaps your code was not being executed when you thought it was? Also, I was only guessing about the compile-time thing. I actually have no idea what happens to inline XML (and I'm not entirely sure that it is documented). As a general rule of thumb, things that can be determined at compile-time are usually done then, since it's then done once and does not have to be done at runtime. You have to read the docs or try stuff to find out for sure.

Cameron 2010-01-29 17:01:35

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