Flex 4 fails to parse XML with quoted text

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?开发者_开发技巧>
<WorkItems>
  <WorkItem Duration="1" ID="1" Title="this breaks: &quot;"></WorkItem>
</WorkItems>

I embed this XML into my Flex 4 app:

<fx:XML source="data.xml" id="Data">
</fx:XML>

And I get an error: TypeError: Error #1090: XML parser failure: element is malformed.

If I remove the quot part of the title it works fine. How come? Isn't this the proper way to escape "?

Edit: Opened a bug with Adobe.

That's valid XML, possibly a bug in Flex...? Try parsing it in ActionScript instead and see what happens.

You could look into using <![CDATA[ ]]> , maybe that will help your efforts.

http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=224590"Naam"]]>BlockquoteBlockquote

I've had a similar issue - though I was working with free standing "&" characters and had to do preprocess the XML with:

        $xml = str_replace("&", "&", $response->getBody());

Can you pre-process the XML to change the escape string into character literals?