Getting bold, italics out of FM into Flash?

[MarkSLC]

I've spent so much time on this, hoping one of you experts can help. I'm stumped.

I am trying to export text from several text fields via XML and import it into dynamic text fields in Flash with the bold and italic text enhancements retained.

I've got the export/import & field population working fine. But the text enhancements do not come over. The information is stripped out (as I discovered after inspecting the XML file in a text editor).

I came up with a Plan B--to use paired HTML codes e.g., to mark up the text in FileMaker, before export. Certainly not optimal to ask end users to do this, but I've got to come up with something.

The problem with Plan B is that the XML exporting transforms all < into & lt; and all > into & gt; So ... the angle bracket codes are not interpreted by Flash but appear right in the text (yes, I have enabled the HTML parsing option for the Flash fields).

Could really use some ideas here! Thanks in advance.

[cjaeger]

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should let you choose whether to output "& lt ;" instead of "<"

Edited November 18, 2005 by Guest