Re: FLASH: XML handling in Flash 5

[John Dowdell]

At 4:21 PM 12/28/0, Aaron Miller wrote:

> Have any XML users noticed that Flash 5 seems to create nodes

> out of  carriage returns


Yup, that's true. In the original Macromedia Flash Player 5 from late

summer you'd test whether character data had significant content before

using it.


(The XML spec could apparently be implemented in various ways here.)


The current player, released in December, offers an optional argument so

Flash's mini-XML parser will ignore character-data nodes which contain only

whitespace. Unfortunately I can't find a link in the search engine to this

changelist for the F5 Player at the moment, and so can't point you to

documentation sorry. (I've already got a change request in to the website

to get the Flash documentation *out* of the technote search engine so it's

easier to find technotes there.... ;-)


Summary: Check for whether character data contains significant content, or

convey info by attributes rather than c-data as Neo suggests.


jd







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