Flash CS5.5-AIR i cant write HTML tags with writeUTFBytes - actionscript-3

Question

i need to write some XML using AIR from Flash CS5.5
My code works, but i dont know how to write some html tags without flash converting < to ; & gt;
I want to write HTML code for a .
How can i achieve that?
This is the type of code i am using, im working into an AIR from Flash CS5.5
Everything works fine except i dont get the "<" but the ;& gt; in the outputfile and the same for many of the HTML signs like > etc.
function SaveFile(event:MouseEvent){
var objs:XML = new XML( <objects /> );
var ball1:XML = <ball />.appendChild(input_text.text);
// In the input i want to write the CDATA and the HTML text dynamically each time
ball1.#xPos = 12;
ball1.#yPos = 42;
objs.appendChild( ball1 );
var vFile = File.desktopDirectory.resolvePath('file.xml');
var vStream = new FileStream();
vStream.open(vFile, FileMode.WRITE);
vStream.writeUTFBytes(objs);
vStream.close();
}

Answer 1

You are passing a String to the appendChild function and that's why you got your result as a "text" in your xml file. So to avoid that, you have just to pass an XML object instead of the String :
// ...
var ball1:XML = <ball />.appendChild(new XML(input_text.text));
// ...
EDIT :
To add the XML declaration to your XML file, you can use a XMLDocument like this :
// ...
objs.appendChild(ball1);
var xml_document:XMLDocument = new XMLDocument(objs.toXMLString());
xml_document.xmlDecl = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>\n';
var file = File.desktopDirectory.resolvePath('file.xml');
var file_stream = new FileStream();
file_stream.open(file, FileMode.WRITE);
file_stream.writeUTFBytes(xml_document.toString());
file_stream.close();
Hope that can help.