Help needed!

Hi there,

I know this is a silly question but I don’t know the answer. How can I load a text from an external XML file into the flash project? I need this text to be parsed as HTML , so in my XML i have something like this:

<!CDATA[ ........some HTML code…..... ]]>

Thanks in advance

Hi there,

I know this is a silly question but I don’t know the answer. How can I load a text from an external XML file into the flash project? I need this text to be parsed as HTML , so in my XML i have something like this:

<!CDATA[ ........some HTML code…..... ]]>

Thanks in advance

Try this http://tinyurl.com/2u4xa6l

Paul, there’s no need for you to be sarcastic, the guy was asking for help, and I intend to point him into the right direction

<main_node>
    <cdata_node>
        <![CDATA[Your <font color="#ff0000">HTML</font> code here.]]>
    </cdata_node>
</main_node>

paste the code below on frame 1 of your FLA file ( AS3 only!!!)

var xmlLdr:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var xmlUrl:URLRequest = new URLRequest("your_xml.xml");
xmlLdr.load(xmlUrl);
xmlLdr.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onXMLLoaded);

function onXMLLoaded(e:Event):void
{
    xmlLdr.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onXMLLoaded);//remove the XML loader event listener once the XML file is loaded
    var xmlData:XML = new XML(e.target.data);//assign the data taken from the XML file to a new XML object
    trace(xmlData);//traces all your XML file content
    trace("================================================");//separate the previous and the next output code
    trace(xmlData.cdataNode.toString());//traces precisely the HTML string that you need
}

Hope this helps!

If you really, really wanna learn, read more about XML here.

Regards,
Dani

No sarcasms intended Dani. His information was to vague for me to help him. I didn’t know what he needs it for, XML AS2 / XML AS3 , image loader? text loader? boolean functions, strings, numbers, arrays… So my link offered everything. Flash XML Includes everything… understand why I did it now ?

[...] How can I load a text from an external XML file into the flash project? I need this text to be parsed as HTML [...]

I guess that pretty much explains what he needs to achieve, doesn’t it?

I wasn’t offering him a complete, out-of-the-box, solution to his problem, I was merely pointing him into the right direction, or at least I hope so

thank you very much guys

thank you very much guys

You’re most welcome, please let us know which solution helped you out

thank you very much guys

Sorry if I sounded sarcastic. Just pointing you out in thr right direction. I learned how to use XML via googling the exact same thing i gave you in my first post:-)

thank you very much guys

Sorry if I sounded sarcastic. Just pointing you out in thr right direction. I learned how to use XML via googling the exact same thing i gave you in my first post:-)

@ cristy4s
Follow Paul’s (Enabled) advice, Google is your best friend when you really know what to look for

If you wanna push your Actionscript knowledge boundaries further, start with Lee Brimelow’s video tutorials.

Here are a couple of links you might be interested in:

http://gotoandlearn.com/play.php?id=64 (ActionScript 3 XML Basics)
http://gotoandlearn.com/play.php?id=65 (ActionScript 3 Advanced XML )

There is also a tutorial over there about basic XML and Actionscript 2, although I really hope you stick with AS3 , as it’s way more powerful and nice, and coding in AS3 is far more clean and well-structured than AS2 coding

Hope this helps!