Re: using DOM functions with embedded html / encoding

I understand why it is doing it but to be honest, if it's going in as well-formed xml then, it's a bigger problem having these values to be rendered via a 3rd-party stylesheet. Am I expected for them to convert back these entities? Really at that point, the only change that should take place is an xsl transformation. I can do a copy-of in the xsl and grab out all the data even if it creates another node by being well-formed xml. to be honest, I care less about the DOM at this point than the pain of having to deal with these encoded sequences at the other end. To be honest, I think the only thing that makes sense is to make it CDATA rather than leaving it as xml. -jonathan On Mar 21, 2006, at 4:59 PM, Chris wrote:

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/