Suppose I have the following XML:
var foo:XML = <root><a>this is a <b>special</b> case</a></root>
Is there any way to detect the position of <b> relative to the contents of <a> without a custom subparser?
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You should wrap your data inside CDATA tags, So it isn't based as XML.
Then you can set a textfields htmlText property to get the formatting.
TandemAdam
2010-06-25 02:54:36
I didn't ask about TextField or it's properties. This question is about E4X and the XML class.
Ben
2010-06-25 21:02:50
Your question is tagged "actionscript-3" so I just assumed. You should think more about your tags!
TandemAdam
2010-06-25 21:37:29
No no, the tag is correct. It is an actionscipt 3 project I'm working on. It's just that I'm not using TextField for it. I was planning to use XML to serialize data users entered into a custom UI control.It's essentially a very primitive HTML control like the built-in TextField class, but it uses runtime loaded SVG fonts so it couldn't be based on TextField.What I have ended up doing is serializing the data I'm grabbing from the object through it's inner display tree. When it comes to deserializing I would have preferred to handle an input format like the code block in my original post...
Ben
2010-06-29 01:35:48
...ie I'd rather nest tags like in an HTML document rather than creating siblings.Anchor tags for example would be `p ... a ... /a .../p` rather than `p ... /p a ... /a p ... /p`.Sorry I didn't explain properly the first time :-)
Ben
2010-06-29 01:40:13