Xml loading and empty elements

Hi,
I'm having problems with Flex and xml data.
I've created an app to edit pre-existing xml files or create new xml files, which are then saved out. The xml node structure is defined (and cannot be changed as it's widely used across the company and it's associates).
The problem is that as soon as the xml is loaded using a URLLoader class, any xml nodes that are empty are changed from:
<nodename></nodename>
to
<nodename />
This is how the data is traced out / saved, but this is useless to me as I need to keep the existing structure as the file may be edited outside of the app.
Is there a way to prevent the xml data from being changed in this way? Adobe's own documentation even says:
'If an element contains no content, it can be written as an empty element (sometimes called a self-closing element). In XML, this element:<lastplayed/> is identical to this element: <lastplayed></lastplayed>'.
In which case, why does this get re-written all the time?
If anyone can help with this I'd be really grateful, as I just can't find a way to solve this.
Thanks,
ferdyferret

Is there really no answer to prevent this then?
ferdyferret

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http://127.0.0.1:8080/foo [my
own trace output of the host address]
The browser has no problem loading the URL. I've looked in
the FL2 API ref docs but didn't find any mention of ports being
unavailable.
Any suggestions?
Regards,
Martin

Hi Martin.
I just finished running after this issue as well. I can only
confirm your findings.
- Both XML.load() and LoadVars.load() request seem remove any
:Port reference from the requested URI.
- The request
http://127.0.0.1:9090/anthing
actually is caught at 127.0.0.1:80
- When I change publish setting to Flash Player 8, the ports
are interpreted correctly, and the request is sent to :9090.
On the upside - this seems to be true only for the PC
environment. The ports are interpreted properly on my phone (Nokia
N70).
On the upside

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I'm creating an educational game for my school students.
A little boy is flying through the city when he encounters objects flying from left to right.
He hears a SOUND eg: Dog - he must go and click the dog image with the flying cursor. There are at least 5 DIFFERENT objects that should be flying on the screen. There could be various of them at any one time.
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Oh my head hurts but I will keep going.
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I'm close but I need a little polishing.

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<frame image = "2.jpg" caption = "caption text
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