WhiteSpaceCollapse not working on textFlow created from HTML

Question

Is there a trick to getting whiteSpaceCollapse to work with imported HTML? Here's my current code, where value is HTML text (e.g. "<p>Blah</p>.."):
textFlow = TextConverter.importToFlow( value, TextConverter.TEXT_FIELD_HTML_FORMAT);
textFlow.whiteSpaceCollapse = WhiteSpaceCollapse.COLLAPSE;
I've also set whiteSpaceCollapse on the RichEditableText to "collapse" but I'm still noticing vertical space differences if my external HTML has linebreaks between <p></p> nodes. Many thanks in advance for any suggestions.
-Robert

Answer 1

this is the way to solve this bug and no need for changing any xml settings , simple and it works
exporting the textflow:
var richTextXML:xml = new XML("<"+"richTextXML"+"/>");
richTextXML.appendChild(getCdataXMl());
private function getCdataXMl():xml{
  var textFlowStr:String = TextConverter.export(textFlow,TextConverter.TEXT_FIELD_HTML_FORMAT
, ConversionType.STRING_TYPE).toString();
var textFlowXMl:xml = new XMl("<![CDATA["+textFlowStr+"]]>");
return textFlowXMl;
importing TextFlow from XMl :
var htmlTextInStr:String = richTextXMl.text();
var importtedTextFlow:TextFlow = TextConverter.importToFlow(htmlTextInStr,TextConverter.TEXT_FIELD_HTML_FORMAT);
textArea.textFlow = importtedTextFlow;