Inline XML with CDATA problem

Question

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to include some JavaScript (JSON 2, to be precise)
in with some ActionScript 3 classes. I'm using the inline XML
method (E4X) of declaring the data. It looks like this:
public static var JSON_2:XML = <data><![CDATA[
if (!this.JSON) {
JSON = function () {
function f(n) {
return n < 10 ? '0' + n : n;
Date.prototype.toJSON = function (key) {
return this.getUTCFullYear() + '-' +
f(this.getUTCMonth() + 1) + '-' +
f(this.getUTCDate()) + 'T' +
f(this.getUTCHours()) + ':' +
f(this.getUTCMinutes()) + ':' +
f(this.getUTCSeconds()) + 'Z';
String.prototype.toJSON =
Number.prototype.toJSON =
Boolean.prototype.toJSON = function (key) {
return this.valueOf();
var cx = /[\u0000
]]></data>
Actually, this is only about a quarter of what I need to
include but this is where it breaks down. Right after the second
slash in the last line, Flash reports:
TypeError: Error #1091: XML parser failure: Unterminated CDATA
section.
In fact, as you can see this is a perfectly valid CDATA
section and isn't being terminated anywhere (there is no instance
of "]]>" anywhere in the data). Unfortunately, Flash doesn't
think so and seems to think that the backslash is an XML node
directive.
Does anyone have an idea of how to effectively deal with
this? The JSON source code has *many* backslashes so not having to
convert them would be *very* useful.
Many thanks for all your suggestions,
Patrick

Answer 1

I've *kind* of solved the problem...replacing each backslash
("\") with a double backslash ("\\"). At least this has removed the
compiler error. However, this would suggest that the CDATA section
is actually being interpreted by Flash, which is something it isn't
supposed to do...or did I misunderstand how this works?