Re: DOM - Question about \0
| From: | Rob Richards | Date: | Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:53:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: DOM - Question about \0 | ||
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dav wrote:
Hi, I have question about \0 character with DOM :<snip />
What to do with the character \0 ? encode this character to obtain : <![CDATA[foo&00;bar]]> ? or skip the character with str_replace("\0", '', $cdata) ?CDATA is raw data and why it doesnt get magically encoded. If you remove the character then you are altering the raw data - also not a good thing typically.
What is the best thing to do ? i like to conserve the \0 because is a blob data Jabber is how to transmit binary ?Never use CDATA sections. blob data should always be base64 encoded (or some other encoding). The data can then be transmitted in a regular element. Note that it is possible that your blob data can contain the following sequence of characters "]]>" which would effectively terminate the CDATA block even though there really is more data. Rob