Flash AS3 and XML: way to fix line breaks in htmlText that uses <b> tags in the xml?

Question

I'm importing text in from an xml file and i'm using htmlText to try to keep some styling with tags. I have both the regular and bold face font embedded, and the bolding works fine. The problem is that it ads spaces around the words in bold like a paragraph indent and then makes a line-break after them. What's going on, is there a way to fix?

fromxmlText.htmlText = theXML.contenttext;

If I pull the text in from a txt file it will work fine, but taking it out of an xml file causing funky formatting. lil' help?

Answer 1

To add HTML into XML you must use CDATA blocks otherwise the HTML is considered part of the XML document.

e.g.

<root>
    <someHtml><![CDATA[I can contain<br />html tags]]></someHtml>
    <somePlainText>I cannot contain html tags since they will be 
                   seen as XML nodes</somePlainText>
</root>

Also make sure you are saving your XML files with unix line endings and encoded as utf-8. If you are using windows line endings (\r\n) then Flash tends to double space newlines. Your editor should allow you to specify the line endings.