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Rothrock
Inspiring
June 4, 2013
Question

XML to links in HTML

  • June 4, 2013
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I'm reading in some XML generated by Access. A node looks something like this:

<desc>

<div>Here is &lt;a href='https://example.com'>a useful link&lt;/a&gt; for you.</div>

</desc>

And when i put that into my textfield I end up with:

Here is <a href='https://example.com'>a useful link</a> for you.

I would like to have the links actually be hot links that show up blue and clickable. I'm sure it is some simple thing that I'm just missing.

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Ned Murphy
Ned Murphy
Legend
June 4, 2013

Here's a little exercise using your xml string that works for me...

var xmlStr:String = "<desc><div>Here is &lt;a href='https://example.com'>a useful link&lt;/a&gt; for you.</div></desc>";


var xml:XML = new XML(xmlStr);

txt.htmlText = xml.div[0].text();

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RothrockAuthor
Inspiring
June 4, 2013

Thanks Ned.

I'll see if I can do something with that. Actually my xml nodes look more like this:

<title>Some title here</title>

<desc>

<div>Here is &lt;a href='https://example.com'>a useful link&lt;/a&gt; for you.</div>

<div>&nbsp</div>

<div>Here is &lt;a href='https://example2.com'>another useful link&lt;/a&gt; for you.</div>

<div>And maybe a paragraph or two with bullets and all</div>

<ul>

<li>Item 1</li>

<li>Item 2</li>

</ul>

</desc>

And so on. The links could appear in any part of those and there might be multiple links in a given node. Somehow I've got to find a way to do what you showed, but for all the content.

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RothrockAuthor
Inspiring
June 4, 2013

Maybe something like

txt.htmlText = xml.children()[0].text();

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