String auto-converts HTML characters?

Question

Hi all, I have an XML document that contains a field like
this:
<someHTML>&lt;b&gt;ThisIsBolded&lt;/b&gt;</someHTML>
Now, I want to put this correctly-rendered HTML into the
htmlText portion of a Text tag. Which I try to accomplish using the
following:
var nodeHTML:String = node.someHTML.toString();
trace(nodeHTML); // Output: <b>ThisIsBolded</b>
(what!? I didn't replace anything!)
nodeHTML.replace("<","&lt;").replace(">","&gt;");
trace(nodeHTML); // Output: <b>ThisIsBolded</b>
(what!? replacement didn't do anything!)
myText.htmlText += nodeBody + "\n"; // Output: Plaintext
output, no bolding! But also no tags...?
Does anyone know what is going on? It seems like I can't
display HTML in the htmlText property. Any help would be
appreciated.

Answer 1

Post Author: V361
CA Forum: General
The maximum length of a String constant, a String value held by a String variable, a String value returned by a function or a String element of a String array is 65,534 characters.
The maximum size of an array is 1000 elements.
The maximum number of arguments to a function is 1000. (This applies to functions that can have an indefinite number of arguments such as Choose).
Not sure about the HTML ?