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July 18, 2008
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special characters in XML

  • July 18, 2008
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this isn't necessarily a flash question, but I am importing an xml file into flash. In the XML I need to display a left bracket (<), and I tried using &lsaquo;, but this does displays litterally, and doesn't render as the left bracket character. Is there another way to do this?
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Andrei1-bKoviI
Inspiring
July 18, 2008
You need to use CDATA if the special character is a part of the string.
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DPSwebmasterAuthor
Inspiring
July 19, 2008
well it would be part of this:

<QUESTION>What is the significance of an albumin level of &gt;2.6 g/dL?</QUESTION>

for some reason, &gt; works, but I actually need it to be &lt; (<), but this causes the rest of the string to not display. How would CDATA need to be incorporated?
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Greg Dove
Inspiring
July 19, 2008
If you're assigning the value to an html enabled text field, then you may want to use either of the approaches in examples 3 or 4 below.

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