Re: using DOM functions with embedded html / encoding

jonathan wrote:

I'm interested in creating an xml doc from my php5/mysql 4.1 app. I'm using PHP's DOM functions to create the xml file. Some of the text fields now have well-formed html embedded in them. When I do a $dom->createElement('item_name', $clean_slot), it encodes the values to &lt;b&gt; for <b>. How would I suppress this behavior. It doesn't look like there is any other variable I can pass to createElement or to appendChild.

It has to do that so it's not treated as xml itself. instead of <data> &lt;b&gt; </data> you'd end up with: <data> <b> </data> which means you are completely changing the DOM (whether it's valid xml or not is another thing altogether). -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/