Formatting XML text

Hi. I've been trying to figure out XML in flash and found a
(old) tutorial that worked for me. i want to format the text using
html tags. I have found other tutorials on this claiming it's easy
using CDATA, but i can't get it to work with mine. It either shows
the text with the tags, or NULL when i add it wrong. I understand i
need to add bold fonts, etc, but i'm adding the code wrong.
If this IS simple (or even possible), will someone help and
show where it needs to be placed in the code? Any help at all is
appreciated.
Thanks.

You do use CDATA tags if you want to put HTML inline in your
XML. When you
do that though, you need to set the htmltext property of the
field, not the
text property. And not all HTML will work - tables for
instance.
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