Re: Entity 'reg' not defined

On Oct 22, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 12:03 -0400, Adam Richardson wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:47 AM, TR Shaw <tshaw@oitc.com> wrote: >> >>> Anyone have an idea how to work around this? I tried: >>> >>> define ('reg', '®'); >>> define ('&reg;', '®'); >>> >>> can't figure how to override the entity table. Errors follw: >>> >>> Warning: simplexml_load_string(): >>> >>> o.cc/46/e53d68e007fd45c2fccb502f2e7ccad5.php?user_id=47&amp;sub_id=61862469&reg; >>> in checkifup.php on line 5119 >>> >>> Warning: simplexml_load_string(): >>> ^ in checkifup.php on line 5119 >>> >>> Warning: simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 220: parser error : Entity >>> 'reg' not defined in checkifup.php on line 5119 >>> >>> Warning: simplexml_load_string(): >>> >>> /office/e53d68e007fd45c2fccb502f2e7ccad5.php?user_id=47&amp;sub_id=89877485&reg; >>> in checkifup.php on line 5119 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>> >>> >> Does doing a str_replace and changing it to the corresponding entity number >> (&#174;) before parsing with simple_xml work? >> >> Here's a more robust function: >> >> http://www.sourcerally.net/Scripts/39-Convert-HTML-Entities-to-XML-Entities >> >> Adam >> > > > > This isn't a PHP error, it's an error with your XML. The regular HTML > entities which you're used to such as &reg; and &copy; are not > recognised in XML without first being declared as entities. The entities > exist in HTML because just outputting those characters won't always work > in a web browser (*Internet Explorer* *cough* *cough*) whereas XML was > never meant to be displayed in a browser, but transformed and then > output to a browser (among many other things) through XSLT. If you use > the characters directly in your XML you should be fine with the parser, > although you may have to make sure your document is saved in utf-8, as > most of the entity characters are above the ascii range. > Ash Its not my XML (&reg; isn't a www standard anyway) but its the xml provided by the source I have to deal with and I can't change them so I guess I'll just read the xml and then run defensing string replacements. Thanks for everyone's help. Tom