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Need to pass a special character into flash with xml

I'm dynamically creating buttons with actionscript 3 from xml. One of my strings has the notorious middle dot. I've tried unicode #x00B7, &midddot; and a few other things, but flash always takes those characters literally. How do I pass the middle dot in so flash displays it as a middle dot?

Antonio Estrada

Try the following:

<code>

-V

XML:
 
<someElements>
  <someElement><![CDATA[haha · hehe]]></someElement>
</someElements>
 
AS:
 
var someXML:XML = new XML();
someXML.ignoreWhite = true;
someXML.load("lol.xml");
 
someXML.onLoad = function(success) {
	if(success) {
		trace(this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
	}	
}

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ksecor

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Don't think I can do that in an attribute...
<client name="<![CDATA[20 · 21 Restaurant & Bar]]">

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julianopolito

Try using unicode as follows:

<client name="20 \u0095 21 Restaurant \u0026 Bar">

Also make sure your font charset is embeded in the application.

ksecor

ASKER

No...that doesn't work....you can see the gall at http://mm214.com/6dg/6dgGall.swf and the xml at http://mm214.com/6dg/port.xml

julianopolito

what about using url encoded characters?

<client name="20 %B7 21 Restaurant & Bar">

Then you can use unescape() function to convert that string before using in the labels

yarunii

I agree with VULTUROUS. If you want to make this XML scalable, turn the attribute into a node. You'll spend some time on it now, but in the long run, you'll save yourself a lot of headache and even more time.

ksecor

ASKER

The unescape does't work, I'm convinced it has to be a node value...thank you all