Re: Error in Building an XML File

Joe Harman wrote:

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Bob McConnell <rvm@cbord.com> wrote:

From: Joe Harman

I am using PHP to build an XML file, but I keep on getting an XML error when open the file in Google Chrome.

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This page contains the following errors: error on line 30 at column 318: Entity 'iuml' not defined Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

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Okay, Thanks... appears the problem is that I have foreign language entities in my HTML... Ugh I am sure this is not really the most efficient way to do this, but I tried using the following to get rid of these, but it appears that it just converts them to this i¿½... $search = explode(",","ç,æ,œ,á,é,í,ó,ú,à,è,ì,ò,ù,ä,ë,ï,ö,ü,ÿ,â,ê,î,ô,û,å,e,i,ø,u"); $replace = explode(",","c,ae,oe,a,e,i,o,u,a,e,i,o,u,a,e,i,o,u,y,a,e,i,o,u,a,e,i,o,u"); $decode_string = str_replace($search, $replace, html_entity_decode($row_rsFeed['full_desc'])) I am going to read up some more on sanitizing HTML Joe

you need to be dealing with encodings here; whats the encoding of the original content? iso-8859-1? - in short what you need is to convert all "text" to be utf-8, more than likely utf8_encode($whatchaNeed) will get you going in right direction. regards!