CDATA in xml to flash

XSLT xsl:copy to copy the whole structure.

I am not familiar with that at all...can you give me an example?

will the image show up in a textArea component or does it have to be a dynamic text box?

I'm afraid I can only help with that if you show how you currently load that very same CDATA section. It depends a lot on language and techniques used. If you do not currently use XSLT, no worries, we don't need to use it to get where we want to be. Can you show the line how you retrieve the CDATA that shows up as text?

The way the image will show up depends on where you place/load/put the output. I don't know, I need to see your code then first.

i am assuming you need to see the code in AS...

the xml is just your basic xml..like the code above..the data is going into a textArea box..i had it going to a dynamic text box but the fonts were getting out of wack..i figure if i can get the image showing up then i would worry about the fonts and font size working right...

thanks for your help

var articleLb:List=articleList;
//-----------------------------------------------
var articles_xml:XML; //new XML
var xmlList:XMLList; //new xmlList
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); 
xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest("xml/articles.xml")); 
xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, xmlLoaded); 
//-----------------------------------------------
function xmlLoaded(event:Event):void{
		articles_xml=XML(event.target.data); 
		xmlList=articles_xml.children(); 
		for (var i:int = 0; i < xmlList.length(); i++) {
			articleLb.addItem({label: xmlList[i].articleName, data: i}); 
	}
		articleLb.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, articleSelected);
		
function articleSelected(event:Event):void{
		articleName.text = xmlList.(articleName == articleLb.selectedItem.label).articleName;
		article.text = xmlList.(articleName == articleLb.selectedItem.label).article;
	}
}
//-----------------------------------------------

                                              

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I have to admit that I'm not an AS programmer. My strengths are in XML, but I do a lot of JavaScript which is related, so let's see if we can fix this together.

If the "article" object is a textarea box and a textarea box is not supposed to interpret HTML, then try changing it to something that does allow HTML. You say your fonts went crazy, sounds to me that the font tag was actually working, at least a bit.

Let's stick with CDATA for a moment and try the crazy font again. If it does something font like, it finds the font tag (even if it goes wrong) and then it can find the <img> too, which we'll fix later. Try it with this, and perhaps you can screenshot what you've got and we take it from there (it will be enough information for me to understand whether we need to unescape or not).

<information>
        <articleName>Jan.25th Meeting Minutes</articleName>
        <article><![CDATA[                  
                <font size="14">This sizzling bikes shouting You know you wanna win me, take me, love me, ride MEEEE!!!! </font>]]>
        </article>
  </information>

                                              

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here is what happens..just the code shows up...not weird fonts...

i have attached a screen shot but it might be hard to read or you can just go to the site

www.drunkinswine.com/theCarolinaRider.php and click on then Stories & View Points, then click articles..its the second article that we are working with...

thanks again

Ok, now I'm sure we're talking about the same subject.

Now, if we would remove the CDATA, the XML processor would see the <font> as nodes, not text. If we add them, like now, it is escaped text. Neither of these are handy. The actual path to a solution here is using innerText, but unfortunately that is not supported by ActionScript. Luckily someone created that: http://weblogs.asp.net/twalters/pages/10141.aspx (just copy the innerText method, or download his tools).

Then we can do the following: remove CDATA, and change that line like so:

ok i have added that AS function to my code and also changed the one line you suggested..

i have also removed the CDATA from the one line of code in the xml..

i get no errors but now no text show up at all on either article..

here is the code to see if i missed something

AS-----
var articleLb:List=articleList;
//-----------------------------------------------
var articles_xml:XML; //new XML
var xmlList:XMLList; //new xmlList
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); 
xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest("xml/articles.xml")); 
xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, xmlLoaded); 
//-----------------------------------------------
XMLNode.prototype.innerText = function(){
 			var strText = "";
 			var xmlNode;
 			for( var i=0; i<this.childNodes.length; i++ )
 		{
  			xmlNode = this.childNodes[i];
		    switch(xmlNode.nodeType)
  		{
		   case 1: // elements
			strText += xmlNode.innerText();
			break;
		   case 3: // text
			strText += xmlNode.nodeValue;
			break;
		   default: // comments etc
			break;
  		}
}
 return strText;
};
//-----------------------------------------------
function xmlLoaded(event:Event):void{
		articles_xml=XML(event.target.data); 
		xmlList=articles_xml.children(); 
		for (var i:int = 0; i < xmlList.length(); i++) {
			articleLb.addItem({label: xmlList[i].articleName, data: i}); 
	}
		articleLb.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, articleSelected);
		
function articleSelected(event:Event):void{
		articleName.text = xmlList.(articleName == articleLb.selectedItem.label).articleName;
		article.text = xmlList.(articleName == articleLb.selectedItem.label).article.innerText;
	}
}
//-----------------------------------------------
 
XML-----
  <information>
    	<articleName>Harley-Davidson Bike Giveaway</articleName>
    	<article>
		   <font size="14">This sizzling bikes shouting You know you wanna win me, take me, love me, ride MEEEE!!!! </font>
    	</article>
  </information>

                                              

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Remove the CDATA tag and use
article.htmlText = String(xmlList.(articleName == articleLb.selectedItem.label).article);

The testfield must also be set to multiline and wrap text.

Just to be sure it works, can you replace innerText with nodeValue of firstChild.nodeValue?

testfield = textfield
typo.

Ah, Iklu, thanks for hopping in. Can you help with the AS specific bits? I started here, thinking it an XML issue, but it is apparently more an AS issue, and that's too many years ago... :)

Yeah it should work fine with the CDATA tag taken out, and using htmlText instead of text.  I don't believe you need article.html = true though because html isnt a property of the TextField class or its parent classes.  Im gonna test it in a sec.

Heres what I did and it worked fine for the article part.

var xml:XML = <information>
        <articleName>Jan.25th Meeting Minutes</articleName>
        <article><img src="http://www.drunkinswine.com/imagesTCR/carolinaMap.gif" height="250" width="250" alt="bikeGiveaway"/>                    
                <font size="14">This sizzling bikes shouting You know you wanna win me, take me, love me, ride MEEEE!!!! </font>
 
The picture was taken at Harley-Davidson of Charlotte where they are promoting their upcoming August 29th Red White and Brew, an event which is recently adopted by the dealership on Independence Boulevard.   Its a fourth annual event generated by Budweiser and first time at this venue.  Along with plenty to get folks there including a bike show and live music, venders and food, as well as the bike raffle of course; the events getting really revved up with something new and spicy: the finals of the local Karney Law Firm Daisy Dukes contest.  Plus, theres an after-party for the big Red White and Brew-day thats being held at McKoys Smokehouse on Old Pineville Road, the same location that will hold the Daisy Dukes Semi-Finals on Saturday, August 15th with live music, give-aways, and the usual out-of-this-world McKoys food and goodtimes atmosphere.    Registrations for the bike are taking place NOW.  Registrations for the Daisy Dukes contest are being taken by Jon Pendleton of Satisfaction Marketing.   For more information about all the events, check out www.h-dofcharlotte.com
 
        </article>
  </information>;
_txt.htmlText = xml.article;

                                              

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i changed the following code and got the following error


1119: Access of possibly undefined property html through a reference with static type flash.text:TextField.

does this mean i cannot do this with a dynamic text box..or do i need to change this to a textArea component?

function articleSelected(event:Event):void{
		articleName.text = xmlList.(articleName == articleLb.selectedItem.label).articleName;
		article.html = true;
		article.htmlText = String(xmlList.(articleName == articleLb.selectedItem.label).article);
	}

                                              

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ok it worked for me as well...now do i need to add the var and _txt part to every article that is in the xml file?

Yeah erase:
article.html = true;

The TextField I used named _txt was just a dummy TextField meant to represent the article TextField.

everything is working just fine except for one thing...apostrophe do not show up on the text..is there a way to fix that?

changing fixed it. It must have something to do with copy and pasting a word document to that section. i wish there was a way you could just right some code that would pull that word document in to the article part of the xml.

So everything works fine now?

yes just fine...thanks for everyone's help

Just checking back: glad you got it working! ;-)

Ehrm, that's not a fair disposition towards Iklu, he helped a fair lot to get this to work. Can you request to reopen the q. and reassign the points, like a split between him and me?

of course...like i said this is new to me...I will request it to be back open..any idea on how I do that..

No problem, EE has a bit of "rules" and is a bit different than other forums in these respects. You can open your question by clicking "Request Attention" (next to your question) and then giving a small description on why you want it reopened. Usually, within 12 hours or so, a moderator will honor your request and you can choose your disposition again.

More on closing questions: http://www.experts-exchange.com/help.jsp?hi=407
More on splitting: http://www.experts-exchange.com/help.jsp?hi=100
More on reopening: http://www.experts-exchange.com/help.jsp?hi=404

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