Re: Invalid chars in XML
| From: | Bastien Koert | Date: | Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:57:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Invalid chars in XML | ||
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On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:07 PM, robert mena <robert.mena@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to parse a XML file with simplexml_load but it gave me error.
> While inspecting the contents I found a & inside the value of a tag.
> <tag>something & something</tag>.
>
> After I've removed the & everything went fine. So which chars I should not
> put in my file? Should I use some conversion function like html_entities?
>
> Does the receiver of the XML has to do anything to convert is back?
>
The following should not be used inside XML
& ampersand
' single quote
" double quote
> greater than
< less than
you could simply wrap all your data in CDATA tags
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Bastien
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