Question

How to use special characteres like <,>,”, and & in XML in Flex?

Example: i have

xmlList = <permission id="1" label="true"/>;

and

xml = <item id="1" permission="" />

i do this:

xml.@permission = xmlList.toString();

but after all this is the result =

<item id="1" permission="&lt;permission id=&quot;1&quot; label=&quot;true&quot;/&gt;" />

I need that the special characters remain in your original format. Some help?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Instead of doing xml.@permission = xmlList.toString() you can do xml.appendChild(xmlList), which results in:

<item id="1">
    <permission id="1" label="true"/>
</item>

You can then access the permission xml element by using xml.permission