XML Pre Processing for handling XML
Posted by Luracast on Jan 22, 2003 in Blog, Flash MX, Tips | 0 comments
When we want to handle external Html files as XML, say for example using my transformTags() code, we face the problem of unclosed tags like <br> tag. To fix this problem we can overwrite onData method of XML object as shown below. It basically replaces all <br> tags with <br/> before parsing the XML data
[UPDATE] included the ActionScript 3 version as well 
It became lot more simpler with the regular expressions
/*
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Developed by R.Arul Kumaran [[email protected]]
for more code keep visiting [www.luracast.com/all/blog]
************************************************************
*/
/*
Coming Soon....
*/
*/
/*
/*
************************************************************
Developed by R.Arul Kumaran [[email protected]]
for more code keep visiting [www.luracast.com/all/blog]
************************************************************
*/
//fix the BR tags by closing
XML.prototype.onData = function(txt) {
txt = txt.split("
").join("
");
txt = txt.split("
").join("
");
this.parseXML(txt);
};
/*
//sample code
my_xml = new XML();
my_xml.load("BrFix.xml")
//BrFix.xml contains "my name is
arul"
trace(my_xml.status);
//traces 0
trace (my_xml.toString());
//traces "my name is
arul"
*/
