diff --git a/simgear/hla/HLAArrayDataType.cxx b/simgear/hla/HLAArrayDataType.cxx
index 0eac2364..f52da283 100644
--- a/simgear/hla/HLAArrayDataType.cxx
+++ b/simgear/hla/HLAArrayDataType.cxx
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Copyright (C) 2009 - 2010  Mathias Froehlich - Mathias.Froehlich@web.de
+// Copyright (C) 2009 - 2011  Mathias Froehlich - Mathias.Froehlich@web.de
 //
 // This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 // modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
@@ -22,7 +22,9 @@
 namespace simgear {
 
 HLAArrayDataType::HLAArrayDataType(const std::string& name) :
-    HLADataType(name)
+    HLADataType(name),
+    _isOpaque(false),
+    _isString(false)
 {
 }
 
@@ -51,6 +53,18 @@ HLAArrayDataType::setElementDataType(const HLADataType* elementDataType)
     _elementDataType = elementDataType;
 }
 
+void
+HLAArrayDataType::setIsOpaque(bool isOpaque)
+{
+    _isOpaque = isOpaque;
+}
+
+void
+HLAArrayDataType::setIsString(bool isString)
+{
+    _isString = isString;
+}
+
 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 HLAFixedArrayDataType::HLAFixedArrayDataType(const std::string& name) :
diff --git a/simgear/hla/HLAArrayDataType.hxx b/simgear/hla/HLAArrayDataType.hxx
index eac645b4..a38f05bc 100644
--- a/simgear/hla/HLAArrayDataType.hxx
+++ b/simgear/hla/HLAArrayDataType.hxx
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Copyright (C) 2009 - 2010  Mathias Froehlich - Mathias.Froehlich@web.de
+// Copyright (C) 2009 - 2011  Mathias Froehlich - Mathias.Froehlich@web.de
 //
 // This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 // modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
@@ -42,8 +42,18 @@ public:
     const HLADataType* getElementDataType() const
     { return _elementDataType.get(); }
 
+    void setIsOpaque(bool isOpaque);
+    bool getIsOpaque() const
+    { return _isOpaque; }
+
+    void setIsString(bool isString);
+    bool getIsString() const
+    { return _isString; }
+
 private:
     SGSharedPtr<const HLADataType> _elementDataType;
+    bool _isOpaque;
+    bool _isString;
 };
 
 class HLAFixedArrayDataType : public HLAArrayDataType {
diff --git a/simgear/hla/HLAOMTXmlVisitor.cxx b/simgear/hla/HLAOMTXmlVisitor.cxx
index 06351d6a..fa731eb3 100644
--- a/simgear/hla/HLAOMTXmlVisitor.cxx
+++ b/simgear/hla/HLAOMTXmlVisitor.cxx
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Copyright (C) 2009 - 2010  Mathias Froehlich - Mathias.Froehlich@web.de
+// Copyright (C) 2009 - 2011  Mathias Froehlich - Mathias.Froehlich@web.de
 //
 // This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 // modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
@@ -439,6 +439,15 @@ HLAOMTXmlVisitor::getArrayDataType(const std::string& dataTypeName, HLAOMTXmlVis
     }
     arrayDataType->setElementDataType(elementDataType.get());
 
+    // Check if this should be a string data type
+    if (elementDataType->toBasicDataType()) {
+        if (dataTypeName == "HLAopaqueData") {
+            arrayDataType->setIsOpaque(true);
+        } else if (dataTypeName.find("String") != std::string::npos || dataTypeName.find("string") != std::string::npos) {
+            arrayDataType->setIsString(true);
+        }
+    }
+
     return arrayDataType;
 }