#43347 [Opn->Bgs]: Big5 RSS Feed crashes xml_parse() function

ID: 43347 Updated by: rrichards@php.net Reported By: pschmandra at hotmail dot com -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5 PHP Version: 5.1.6 New Comment: Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself. For a list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the appropriate forum for asking support questions. Due to the volume of reports we can not explain in detail here why your report is not a bug. The support channels will be able to provide an explanation for you. Thank you for your interest in PHP. feeds contain invalid characters for big5. You can confirm that trying to convert it directly with iconv or even validating the feed with any online xml validator. http://validator.w3.org/ http://feedvalidator.org/ Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-11-21 18:33:51] pschmandra at hotmail dot com List of Traditional Chinese RSS Feeds provided by the BBC that make xml_parse() function error out. newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/chinese/trad/news/rss.xml newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/chinese/trad/world/rss.xml newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/chinese/trad/china_news/rss.xml newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/chinese/trad/taiwan_hk/rss.xml newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/chinese/trad/uk/rss.xml newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/chinese/trad/learn_english/rss.xml newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/chinese/trad/business/rss.xml newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/chinese/trad/sci/tech/rss.xml newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/chinese/trad/press/rss.xml ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-11-21 14:54:59] pschmandra at hotmail dot com Sorry, every time I try to send the link to the BBC feeds or I put in XML I get "Please do not SPAM our bug system". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-11-21 06:00:10] chregu@php.net Please show an example of your XML ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-11-20 18:49:11] pschmandra at hotmail dot com All supported encodings listed below cause the xml_parse() function to error out parsing any Chinese Traditional RSS Feeds published by the BBC using PHP5.1.6 with a UTF-8 default_charset. xml_parser_create() xml_parser_create('') xml_parser_create('UTF-8') xml_parser_create('ISO-8859-1') xml_parser_create('US-ASCII') ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-11-20 17:56:22] chregu@php.net Please also read http://php.net/manual/en/function.xml-parser-create.php carefully, especially: *** The optional encoding specifies the character encoding for the input/output in PHP 4. Starting from PHP 5, the input encoding is automatically detected, so that the encoding parameter specifies only the output encoding. In PHP 4, the default output encoding is the same as the input charset. If empty string is passed, the parser attempts to identify which encoding the document is encoded in by looking at the heading 3 or 4 bytes. In PHP 5.0.0 and 5.0.1, the default output charset is ISO-8859-1, while in PHP 5.0.2 and upper is UTF-8. The supported encodings are ISO-8859-1, UTF-8 and US-ASCII. *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/43347 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=43347&edit=1