Preserving whitespace in html to TextConverter

Question

The XML objects in Flash have a tendency to remove all whitespace. So if I choose to represent HTML as XML when I'm passing it to TextConverter or an importer:

<html>My <b>great</b> idea</html>

- it trims the space after "My" and before "idea", so my text looks like this:

Mygreatidea

- which is unacceptable.

Right now I'm doing this weird jump-through-hoops in order for Flash to preserve that white space:

XML.ignoreWhitespace = XML.prettyPrinting = false; myXML = <html>My <b>great</b> idea</html>; XML.ignoreWhitespace = XML.prettyPrinting = true;

- which works, but is awful to look at. Is there any other way to preserve whitespace in the HTML? (And passing it as a String instead is not an option, because then all the quote characters have to be escaped, which makes things even worse.)

robin_briggs · Answer

There's a setting in Flash's XML object called ignoreWhitespace that you need to set to false (by default its true).

Something like this should work:

function convertStringToXML(source:String):XML

{

var originalSettings:Object = XML.settings();

try

{

XML.ignoreWhitespace = false;

var xmlTree:XML = new XML(source);

}

finally

{

XML.setSettings(originalSettings);

}

return xmlTree;

}

- robin

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