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Asked: 2026-05-11T01:34:17+00:00

I have an XML object that I want to send to my player via

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I have an XML object that I want to send to my player via HTTP POST. This is all good when using XML.sendAndLoad.

The problem is that when the XML object I generate contains CDATA, the CDATA is stripped out before the POST occurs.

so if I have:

var xml:XML = new XML('<root><tag><![CDATA[hello]]></tag></root>')

when I do a sendAndLoad this is what gets POSTed:

<root><tag>hello</tag></root>

the same occurs when I try to create the XML using XMLDOM methods like createElement, createTextNode, and appendChild.

the AS2 docs say that CDATA is not supported. Is there a workaround for this? I’m thinking that it could be fixed by extending and overriding the XML class, but I haven’t found a way to do it yet.

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  1. This is the expected behavior. CDATA is substituted by the XML parser at the time it builds its tree. What is sent is a serialization of the tree, sans the CDATA.

    If you want to send raw XML source you have to send it as pure string data.

    BTW I fail to see how it can be a problem here, since both are semantically identical, i.e. ‘<![CDATA[hello]]>’ and ‘hello’ give the same string. CDATA is just a quoting syntax, not significant markup. However there can be a problem if the CDATA contains special characters. You will have to quote them properly.

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