ActionScript 3.0 :: Flash Noob Treated Roughly While Parsing XML?
Aug 24, 2010
I'm linking an XML document to a Flash file to control all sorts of things and it's going quite well until i tried to fill a dynamic text field with a paragraph of type from the XML document. I've done this a million times in AS2 and I've done it in AS3 using attributes, but this time I'm using childNodes. The dynamic text field is in a movieclip. When I tested it using this code:
var oneComments:String=xmlTestOne.firstChild.childNode s[num].childNodes[1];
oneClip.txtComment.text=oneComments;
...it sort of worked but I get the element tags along with the paragraph text.
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