Xml href question

Question

hello........i have been researching this for a while now and
still can't get it to work. does anyone know how to make an <a
href> tag work in an xml file? I have a photo gallery flash file
that is referencing this xml file:
</image>
<image>
<pic>images/image_2.jpg</pic>
<thumb>images/thumb_2.jpg</thumb>
<title>Project 2</title>
<desc>whatever text</desc>
</image>
i tried placing this code <![CDATA[ <a
href="www.google.com" target="blank">google</a>]]> in
the <desc> tag. it did not work.
does anyone know what exactly needs to go into the xml file
and the flash actionscript to make this work? any help is greatly
appreciated. i am at a loss. thanks.

Answer 1

quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
I threw this together and it works. You might want to compare
it with your
code. Few things to note:
1. txtLoadText.html=true
2. Assign the listener to the XML object before loading the
xml file.
3. Consider using the more elegant XPathAPI to retrieve
nodes.
data.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<image>
<pic>images/image_1.jpg</pic>
<thumb>images/thumb_1.jpg</thumb>
<title>Project 1</title>
<desc><![CDATA[<a href='
http://www.adobe.com'
target='_blank'>CLICK
ME</a> ]]></desc>
</image>
// FLA with one instance of TextField named txtLoadText
// frame 1
stop();
//XML data
var LoadedFileSize:Number = 0; //Size of loaded data
var TotalFileSize:Number = 0; //Total file size
var PercentageFileSize:Number = 0; //Percentage =
(Loaded/Total) * 100
//Movie
var LoadedMovieSize:Number = 0; //Size of loaded data
var TotalMovieSize:Number = 0; //Total file size
var PercentageMovieSize:Number = 0; //Percentage =
(Loaded/Total) * 100
var Percentage:Number = 0;
txtLoadText.html=true;
//Set the preloader text
txtLoadText.htmlText = "loading data... " + Percentage + "%";
var xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
//Function called on XML data load completion
function loadXML(loaded:Boolean) {
if (loaded) {
txtLoadText.htmlText =
this.firstChild.childNodes[3].firstChild.nodeValue;
else {
txtLoadText.htmlText = "XML file failed to load!";
xmlData.load("data.xml");
This worked. The link is functioning properly in the
<desc> tag but now it does not want to load the thumbs or
images?? The <title> does not show up either. Any
thoughts?